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