Rivers 1
The Nile River is located in ____________________.
Africa
You might hear a warning about _____________________ if you were taking a boat tour of the Amazon River in South America.
piranhas
On the Yangtze River, people have built a great dam, this is because of the river’s long history of _____________________.
flooding
An ocean located at the top of the Northern Hemisphere, near the North Pole.
This ocean is the smallest and the shallowest of the world's oceans.
Artic Ocean
This world river vocabulary word means: having a lot of moisture in the air.
humid
This world river vocabulary word means: surrounded by land, cut off from the seacoast.
landlocked
This world river vocabulary word is a lake created by humans to store water.
It is created by building a dam.
reservoir
This world river vocabulary word means: the end of a river where it empties into a lager body of water (lake or ocean.)
mouth
This world river vocabulary word means: the beginning of a river, usually found high in the mountains.
source
This world river vocabulary word means: tiny pieces of soil or earth carried by the river.
The Yellow River gets its name from this.
silt
The Yukon River played a big part in the search for_______________________.
gold in the Klondike
The Yellow River takes its name from the ____________ that flows in the river.
silt
You could see ancient pyramids from a boat on the _______________ River.
Nile
The Nile River and the Yellow River provide ___________________ to surrounding fields.
irrigation
The ___________________ River carries the most water of any river in the world.
Choices: Nile, Volga, Amazon
Amazon
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or ____________________________, wrote about river pilots along the Mississippi River.
Mark Twain
The Niger River was key to the growth of the city of _________________ in Africa.
Timbuktu
Murray Rivers ___________________ is a small trickle of water near Mount Kosciuszko, high in the Australian mountains.
source
Boats traveling on the Congo River switch their cargo to railroad cars to help avoid __________________ on the river.
(hint: fast-moving water)
rapids
An unusual feature of the ____________ River is that it is considered holy by Hindu people.
Choices: Congo, Ganges, Ob
Ganges
Being a _________________________ on the Mississippi River is especially difficult because the river changes all the time.
river pilot
The Ob River has specific dangers taken in consideration when navigating. These dangers are __________________________.
freezing temperatures and ice
The Murray and the Darling Rivers combine to form a __________________________.
drainage basin
This world river vocabulary word means: the area drained by a main river and other connected rivers.
choices: canal, drainage basin, irrigation
drainage basin
This world river vocabulary word means: a society, or groups of people, with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government
choices: pasture, sandbar, civilization
civilization