Rivers of Africa
The longest river in the world
The Nile River
The Yellow River in China gets its color from
silt in the water
Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is dangerous because of
sandbars, logs, and changes in the river's course
You might hear a warning about piranhas on this river.
The Amazon River
What type of building would you see on the banks of the Rhine and Danube Rivers?
Castles
What would you see from the banks of the Nile River?
Irrigated fields
Pyramids and the desert
People built the Three Gorges dam on this river in China because of its history of flooding
Yangtze
The Mississippi River has many smaller rivers connecting to it, which are called
tributaries
The Amazon is the world's second-longest river, but it has more _________ than any other river.
Water
Castles along the Rhine and Danube Rivers would make passing boats pay a __________ for protection and upkeep of the river.
Why is the Nile River important?
It provides irrigation for crops and allowed civilization to develop in Egypt.
The Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze has this thing above it, where water collects when it is blocked
a reservoir
What river in North America was called "The Father of Waters" and splits the United States in half?
The Mississippi River
What kind of environment does the Amazon flows through?
A lush rainforest
On the Volga River in Russia, people had to dig these types of artificial rivers to connect the river to other bodies of water.
Canals
What is the main danger on the Congo River, that makes people get down and use railroads to go around it?
Rapids and waterfalls
The Ganges River in India is important to the people around it because
People a hundred years ago traveled to the Yukon River in Canada in search of
Gold
The Orinoco River is famous for having the world's tallest
waterfall
The Murray and Darling Rivers in Australia come together to form a _____________ to take extra water away from the land.
drainage basin
This river goes through the desert in Mali, and allowed the city of Timbuktu to develop and have a noisy marketplace.
The Niger River
It is dangerous to navigate on the Ob River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean, because of
ice
What kind of animals would you see on the banks of the Mackenzie River in Canada during the summer?
Migrating birds
The rainforest of the Amazon River can be very hot because the air has a lot of water in it, making it _______.
humid
Without the Orinoco River in Paraguay, the country would be _____________, completely locked in by other countries so that it could not reach the sea.
landlocked