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Rivers have always been essential for human life and settlement. A source for drinking, the source of food, and a way to transfer goods from one place to another. They are essential in the environment of rainforest and wetlands.
The Yangtze holds the title of Asia’s longest river. The Yangtze has a momentous place in China’s history and culture, providing some of the country’s most fertile land as well as some of its most artistically inspiring scenery.
Where the Mekong river runs, the land is incredibly verdant shaping one of the richest areas of biodiversity on the planet. Thousands of species call its shores and waters home. Long an essential trade route the Mekong passes through, or close to, some of the region’s most important cities, including Vientiane, Phnom Penh and Saigon.
The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia. Its estimated length is 4,350 km.
From the Tibetan Plateau, the river runs through China's Yunnan Province, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
The Mekong rises as the Za Qu and soon becomes known as the Lancang (Lantsang) in the 'Three Rivers Source Area' on the Tibetan Plateau in the Sanjiangyuan National Nature Reserve. It approaches and empties into the sea through the Mekong Delta. Tributaries: Nam Khan, Tha, Nam Ou, Mun, Tonle Sap, Kok, Ruak.
The Mekong basin is one of the richest areas of biodiversity in the world which is only surpassed by the Amazon?
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Mekong River has many tributaries. Type in at least 3 of its affluents.
Where is the place where Mekong drains into a larger body of water ? Type in the answer.
Where is the original point from which Mekong flows? Type in the answer.
Mekong River flows through 6 countries. Type them in.
The Yangtze or Yangzi is the longest river in Asia and the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country (Qinghai, Tibet, Yunnan, Sichuan, Chongqing, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangxi, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai provinces). It rises in the northern part of the Tibetan Plateau and flows 6,300 km in a generally easterly direction to the East China Sea.
Tributaries: Yalong, Min, Tuo, Jialing, Han, Wu, Yuan, Zi, Xiang, Gan, Huangpu.
In mid-2014, the Chinese government announced it was building a multi-tier transport network, comprising railways, roads, and airports, to create a new economic belt alongside the river.
The grain produced in the Yangtze River Basin, 70% of which is rice, is enough for half of the nation?
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The Yangtze River has over 700 tributaries. Type in some of its major affluents.
Where is the place where Yangtze drains into a larger body of water ? Type in the answer.
Where is the original point from which Yangtze flows? Type in the answer.
Yangtze River flows through 9 provinces in China. Type at least 5 of them.
There are four major rivers in Africa: the Nile, the Zambezi, the Congo, and the Niger. The Nile is one of the longest rivers in the world.
The Zambezi's most noted feature is Victoria Falls. Other notable falls include the Chavuma Falls at the border between Zambia and Angola, and Ngonye Falls, near Sioma in Western Zambia.
Main tributaries - Marañón, Napo, Japurá/Caquetá, Rio Negro/Guainía, Putumayo, Trombetas, Ucayali, Javary, Juruá, Purús, Madeira, Tapajós, Xingu.
The Amazon and its tributaries flow through the countries of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Brazil before emptying into the Atlantic Ocean 6, 437 km (4,000 miles) from the Amazon's headwaters high in the Andes mountains of Peru.
Although the Amazon is such an enormous river, there are no bridges to cross the river along its entire length?
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The Amazon has an impressive number of tributaries - over 1000. Remember that a tributary is a stream or river that flows into and joins the main river.
Type in the names of some of Amazon's tributaries.
The mouth refers to the place where it drains into a larger body of water . Type in the answer.
Remember that this is the original point from which the river flows.
The Amazon flows through 6 countries from South America. Type them in.
The Zambezi is the fourth-longest river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. The area of its basin is 1,390,000 square km.
The 2,574-km-long river rises in Zambia and flows through eastern Angola, along the north-eastern border of Namibia and the northern border of Botswana, then along the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe to Mozambique, where it crosses the country to empty into the Indian Ocean.
Major tributaries: Chifumage River, Luena River, Kabompo River, Lungwebungu River, Luanginga River, Gwayi River, Sengwa River, Sanyati River, Kafue River, Luangwa River, Panhane River, Luia River.
In 1498 Vasco da Gama became the first European to see the Zambezi River? He called it the 'River of Good Omens' ('Rio dos Bons Sinais').
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The Zambezi has numerous tributaries. Type is some of its major affluents.
Where is the place where Zambezi drains into a larger body of water ? Type in the answer.
Where is the original point from which Zambezi flows? Type in the answer.
Zambezi River flows through 6 countries and 1 republic from Africa. Type them in.
The Nile, which is about 6,650 km long, covers eleven countries: Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Republic of the Sudan and Egypt.
It has two major tributaries, the White Nile and the Blue Nile. The White Nile is the headwaters and primary stream of the Nile. The White Nile is longer and rises in the Great Lakes region of central Africa, with the most distant source still undetermined but located in either Rwanda or Burundi. The two rivers meet just north of the Sudanese capital of Khartoum.
The northern section of the river flows north almost entirely through the Sudanese desert to Egypt, then ends in a large delta and flows into the Mediterranean Sea.
The Nile Delta region is home to about 40 million people? That is half of Egypt's population.
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The Nile has only 2 tributaries. Type them in.
This is the place where it drains into a larger body of water - another river, a lake, the sea or the ocean.
Where is the mouth of the Nile River?
Remember that the source of a river is the original point from which the river flows. There are different types of sources: lake, marsh, spring or glacier.
Type in the Nile's source.
The Nile flows through 7 countries and 3 republics from Africa. Type them in.
North America
In the 18th century, the river was the primary western boundary of the young United States, and since the country's expansion westward, the Mississippi River has been widely considered a convenient dividing line between the Eastern, Southern, Midwestern United States, and the Western United States.
South America
Amazon River, the greatest river of South America and the largest drainage system in the world in terms of the volume of its flow and the area of its basin.
Its source is Lake Itasca in northern Minnesota and it flows generally south for 2,320 miles (3,730 km) to the Mississippi River Delta in the Gulf of Mexico.
The main stem is entirely within the United States. Tributaries - St. Croix River, Wisconsin River, Rock River, Illinois River, Kaskaskia River, Ohio River, Minnesota River, Des Moines River, Missouri River, White River, Arkansas River.
The river either borders or passes through the states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana.
A tributary, also called an affluent, is a stream or river that flows into and joins a main river. The place where the tributary and the main river meet is called a confluence.
Name as much tributaries as you can.
The mouth of a river refers to the end of a river, the place where it drains into a larger body of water - another river, a lake, the sea or the ocean.
The source of a river, also called headwaters, is the original point from which the river flows. There are different types of sources: lake, marsh, spring or glacier.
Try to state the length either in miles or in kilometers.
Mississippi flows through 10 different states, forming the largest delta in North America.
Type in some of these states.
