World Rivers Vocabulary

a stream or smaller river that flows into a larger river

• tributary
• estuary
• confluence

cut off from the seacoast, surrounded by land

• peninsula
• landlocked

• island

a body of moving or flowing water that follows a set path

• river
• ocean
• delta

item made in large numbers for sale or trade

• manufactured good

• artifact
• silt

land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river

• estuary
• peninsula
• delta

to move to a different place

• migrate

• transfer
• shift

the starting point or beginning of a river's water

• source
• middle
• mouth

the ongoing movement of water, such as in a river

• still
• flow
• current

the point where a river empties into a larger body of water

• mouth

• source

• delta

tiny pieces of soil or earth carried by the water in a river

• silt

• pebbles
• mud