Water Body Assessment

Between Africa and America

• Atlantic Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Great Lakes

• Gulf of Mexico

Inland port cities grew along these

• Rio Grande

• Missouri River

• Great Lakes

• Mississippi River

Earth's largest water body

• Pacific Ocean

• Mississippi River

• Atlantic Ocean

• Missouri River

A large body, but not large as an ocean

• Atlantic Ocean

• St. Lawrence River

• Ohio River

• Gulf of Mexico

Between Asia and America

• Indian Ocean

• Pacific Ocean

• Colorado River

• Rio Grande

Served as highway for explorers, settlers, and immigrants

• Mississippi River

• Gulf of Mexico

• St. Lawrence River

• Atlantic Ocean

Lakes mostly bordering Canada

• Great Lakes

• Rio Grande

• Gulf of Mexico

• Colorado River

Used by French and Spanish as route to a Mexico

• Colorado River

• Gulf of Mexico

• Columbia River

• Rio Grande

Early exploration destination and route to Asia

• Atlantic Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

• Pacific Ocean

• Great Lakes

Most famous river in America

• Missouri River

• Rio Grande

• Great Lakes

• Misissippi River