A. All About Rivers

Question 1

What is the longest river in the world?

Answer 1

Nile

Question 2

What is the longest river in Brazil?

Answer 2

Amazon

Question 3

What is the third longest river in world?

Answer 3

Chang jiang - Yangtze

Question 4

What is the longest river in Russia?

Answer 4

YeniseiAngara (river system)

Question 5

________is the water
that runs off the surface
of the land when it rains or
when the snow melts?

Answer 5

runoff

Question 6

A ______________ is an example of how creeks form into streams and how streams form into rivers?

Answer 6

watershed

Question 7

The Big Sioux River watershed combines with the James River Watershed to form the _______ __________ ___________.

Answer 7

Missouri River Watershed

Question 8

Which US watershed is enormous and drains more than half the country.

Answer 8

Mississippi Watershed

Question 9

The Mississippi River watershed drains into __ _____ __ _________.

Answer 9

The Gulf of Mexico

Question 10

Water soaking into the ground and soil is called _________.

Answer 10

infiltration

Question 11

Many small creeks merge to form?

Answer 11

larger streams and rivers

Question 12

What is the tallest dam in the US?

Answer 12

Oroville

Dam

Question 13

How tall is the Oroville Dam?

Answer 13

754 feet

Question 14

What is the second tallest Dam in the US?

Answer 14

Hoover Dam

Question 15

How tall is the Hoover DAM?

Answer 15

726 feet

Question 16

What is the third tallest Dam?

Answer 16

Dworshak

Question 17

In what state is the Dworshak Dam ?

Answer 17

Idaho

Question 18

What is the fourthtallest Dam in the US?

Answer 18

Glen Canyon

Question 19

In what state is the fourth tallest Dam?

Answer 19

Colorado

Question 20

What two states does the Hoover Dam exist?

Answer 20

Arizona and Nevada

Question 21

Water that remains below the surface is called what?

Answer 21

ground water

Question 22

If you dig until you hit water, you have just hit the _______?

Answer 22

watertable

Question 23

What two things effect the quality of water entering a river?

Answer 23

runoff and infiltration

Question 24

Anything abnormal that is added to a water system is called __________.
.

Answer 24

water pollution

Question 25

A______ is a man-made structure built across a river.

Answer 25

dam

Question 26

What is the purpose of a dam?

Answer 26

Control river flow, improve navigation

and regulate flooding

Question 27

What type of power does a dam produce?

Answer 27

hydroelectric

Question 28

In a hydroelectric dam, what produces the power?

Answer 28

turbine

Question 29

_____ provide pollution free power.

Answer 29

Dams

Question 30

Metal coils surrounded by magnets are called?

Answer 30

Turbines

Question 31

Name three things rivers provide.

Answer 31

transporation, creating animal habitat, creating energ

Question 32

Name the two basic feature of the earth.

Answer 32

land and water