Interesting Facts
The longest river in the world
What is the Nile?
Mississippi
What is North America?
Murray
What is Australia?
An area where grapes are grown
What is a vineyard?
Moving water from a river or lake to dry land to help crops grow
What is irrigation?
This river carries yellow colored silt which forms fertile land
What is the Yellow River or the Huange He River?
Nile
Missouri
What is North America?
Fine particles of soil carried by the water in a river
What is silt?
land set aside for cows, horses, or other animals to feed off the natural grasses
What is a pasture?
This river is sacred to the Hindu people
What is the Ganges?
Amazon
What is South America?
Parana
What is South America?
the place where a river empties into a sea or other large body of water
What is the mouth?
a nature lake or a lake created by people for the purpose of storing water
What is a reservoir?
A railroad was built around this river to help get around waterfalls
What is the Congo?
Yellow
What is Asia?
Ob
What is Asia?
a man made channel that connects two bodies of water
What is a canal?
cut off from the seacoast and surrounded by land
What is landlocked?
Canals were built to help connect this river to the sea
What is the Volga?
Volga
What is Europe?
Rhine
What is Europe?
the area drained by a single large river and its tributaries
What is a drainage basin?
a stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river
What is a tributary?