Rivers Common Terms

What is the Source of a river?

• The place where a river begins

• The point where a smaller river meets the larger river

• The end of a river

• The route of a river

The route of the river

• Estuary

• Confluence

• Basin

• Course

What is the area circled red called?

• Confluence

• Source

• Mouth

• Tributary

What is the area where the river meets the sea called?

• Watershed

• Confluence

• Tributary

• Mouth

The area of land _______ by a river is called a Basin.

Estuary

• The point where the tributary joins the river

• The part of the mouth that is tidal

• The area of land drained by a river

• The route the river takes to the sea

A small river that joins a larger river

• Mouth

• Watershed

• Tributary

• Estuary

Watershed

• The high ground separating one river basin from another.

• The area of land drained by a river

• The place where a river begins

•  The part of the mouth that is tidal