UNIT 1 WORLD RIVERS TEST GUIDE

Sandbar

A buildup of sand formed by the movement of flowing water

The Amazon River flows through this type of surrounding environment.

A lush rainforest

Rapids

A place on a river where the water moves swiftly and violently

When a dam is built, which of the following things results?

A reservoir

Civilization

A society, or group of people, with similar religious beliefs, customs, language, and form of government

Tributary

A stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river

The Nile River is located on which continent?

Africa

Which of the following could you see from a boat on the Nile River?

Ancient pyramids

The River Niger was key to the growth of the

City of Timbuktu in Africa

Landlocked

Cut off from the seacoast; surrounded by land

The Murray and Darling Rivers combine to form a

Drainage basin

Special dangers in navigating the Ob River, which empties into the Arctic Ocean, are

Freezing temperatures and ice

An unusual feature of the Ganges River is that it

Is considered holy by Hindu people.

Delta

Land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river

A visitor to the Mackenzie River in the Northern Hemisphere might see this wildlife.

Migrating birds

A key feature that the Nile River and the Yellow River share is that they what?

Provide irrigation to surrounding fields

Boats traveling on the Congo River switch their cargo to railroad cars to help avoid this type of danger on the river.

Rapids

Samuel Langhorne Clemens, or Mark Twain, wrote about these people

River pilots along the Mississippi River

The Yellow River takes its name from what?

Silt that flows in the river

For the Murray River, a small trickle of water near Mount Kosciuszko, high in the Australian mountains, is the location of the river's

Source

You might hear a warning about piranhas if you were taking a boat tour of this river in South America.

The Amazon River

Which river have people built a great dam, in part because of the river's long history of flooding

The Yangtze River

Mouth

The place where a river empties into a sea or other large body of water

Being a river pilot on the Mississippi River is especially difficult because

The river changes all the time.

The Yukon River played a big part in this era of history.

The search for gold in the Klondike

The Rhine River and the Danube River share this feature.

They both have their source in the central part of Europe

Migrate

To move to a different place

Is it true that the Amazon River carries the most water of any river in the world?

Yes

Canal

a channel dug by people that connects two bodies of water

Irrigation

watering of crops by moving water from a well, a river, or a lake to a place where it does not rain enough to grow crops