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Rivers Bring Life to Farms and Cities
Rivers Make Our Lives Better
Vocabulary
Dangers Along Rivers
Rivers and Trade
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The name of the longest river in the world.
What is the Nile?
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The country that the Indus River can be found.
What is Pakistan?
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a. extend to 200 to 1000 metters.

mesopelagic 

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Name 3 important things that a river boat captain would have to watch out for while navigating down a river.
What is ice, fallen logs, waterfalls?
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Approximately 80% of solar energy striking the ocean is absorbed in first_____________

What is the  10 m?

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The Yellow River is located in this country.
What is China?
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The country the Ganges River is located.
What is India?
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the shallow shoreline under the influence of tides 

What is "the intertidal zone or littoral ?

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Two rivers that we studied and compared for river dangers were the ......(name the river and the continent it is on.)
What is Mississippi (North America) and Ob (Asia)?
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The 2 main rivers  in Europe.

What is Rhine and Danube?

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The Yellow River is good for farmers because .....
What is carries yellow colored silt which makes the land very fertile for growing crops?
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The other river that stars with a "Y" that is located in China. (Hint: Not the Yellow River)
What is the Yangtze River?
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The triangular piece of land at the mouth of a river.
What is delta?
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The way that people solved the problem that waterfalls caused for ships on the Congo River.
What is built a railroad to go around the waterfall?
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a. The Volga River is located in this country. b. The people build canals to connect the river with the sea in order to __________________________.
What is Russia? What is to help them trade goods with other countries.
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Rivers help bring life to cities and farms by .....(2 things)
What is providing drinking water and irrigation?
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The river that is considered sacred by the followers of the Hindu religion.
What is The Ganges?
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Where Australia grow its oranges, melons, and grapes (2 words).
What is orchard and vineyard?
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The river men traveedl on to discover gold in Canada in 1897.
What is the Yukon River?
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a. The Niger River is located on the continent of ___________. b. Timbuktu is a city that is located along this river and has a ________________ along its banks that serve as trading centers.
What is Africa? What is bazaars or marketplaces?
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Name 3 types of Corals 

Fringing , Barrier  and Atol 

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The reason why a dam is being built on the Yangtze River.
What is to help control the river from flooding?
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A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river is called ___________. Colorado is an example of a state that is completed surrounded by land. Another word for this is________.

What is tributary? What is landlocked?

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The Amazon is located on the continent of ___________________. It is considered to be the ______ longest river in the world. From above, it looks like 2 rivers flowing side by side because ______________.
What is South America? What is 2nd? What is gray soil particles and another carries light brown soil, so until they mix completely, it looks like 2 tributaries flowing beside each other.
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The 2 other rivers  of South America. 

What is Orinoco and Parana River?