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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.
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.
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.
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?
Search for other interesting facts about this river and add them here.
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.
Where is the mouth of the Amazon River?
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.
Tributary
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.
Where is the mouth of the Mississippi River?
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