World Rivers

What river is the longest river in the world?

• Ob River

• Nile River

• Yellow River

• Mississippi River

Where is the Yellow River?

• China

• Australia

• North America

• Europe

What are some ways rivers are useful to people all over the world?

• Drinking water

• Bathing

• Travel

• Irrigation for crops

What is the starting point of a river called?

• Mouth

• First

• Start

• Source

What are the streams that flow together to make a river called?

• Brooks

• Streams

• Tributaries

• Creeks

Where does a river pour (throw up) into the ocean or large lake?

• Nose

• Source

• Drainage Basin

• Mouth

What is the area of land drained by a river system?

• Drainage basin

• Mouth

• Source

• Tributary

What is the world's second longest river running through the a rain forest?

• Yangtze River

• Ganges River

• Yellow River

• Amazon River

Which river's drainage basin covers almost half of the US?

• Mackenzie River

• Murray River

• Mississippi River

• Yukon River

Which river in Central Africa was so dangerous to travel on that people living along it build a railroad?

• Congo River

• Nile River

• Murray River

• Rhine River