Africa

Question 1

River basin

Answer 1

the area drained by a river and its tributaries

Question 2

Mouth of the River

Answer 2

Where a river flows into a body of water

Question 3

Source of a river

Answer 3

Where the river begins, where it is started

Question 4

Cataracts

Answer 4

A series of rapids and low waterfalls on a river

Question 5

Nile delta

Answer 5

Where the Nile runs into the Mediterranean, multiple Little streams, triangular shaped

Question 6

Source of The, Blue, Nile

Answer 6

Lake, Tana

Question 7

Source of the White Nile

Answer 7

Lake, Victoria

Question 8

Mouth of the Nile river

Answer 8

Mediterranean Sea

Question 9

Where the white and blue Niles meet

Answer 9

Khartoum, Sudan

Question 10

what is the process of the water cycle?

Answer 10

Condensation, runoff, evaporation, infiltration, precipitation

Question 11

Why did Egypt build the Aswan high dam?

Answer 11

To control the amount of water and for hydroelectric power

Question 12

Benefits of hydroelectric dam, such as the aswan high dam

Answer 12

Can guarantee enough water for all year farming, for both seasons

Question 13

Water in Lake Nasser is important to Egypt for

Answer 13

Perennial irrigation

Question 14

What two factors have put pressure on cairo’s water supply in Egypt

Answer 14

Egypt’s increasing population and pollution

Question 15

Facts about the White Nile and it’s journey

Answer 15

LakeVictoria is its source, it was discovered by John, Hanning, Speke, passes through two other lakes and large waterfalls before slowing, is a muddy gray color, passes through Al Sudd a huge swamp, lots of vegetation along the way, meets the Blue Niles in Khartoum takes a while to mix

Question 16

Facts about the Nile

Answer 16

It makes a wide turn shortly after mixing this is known as the great bend, passes over six Cataracs, reaches Lake Nasser, a man-made lake, stopped and controlled by the Aswan high dam, there is great farming along the river, especially by the Aswan dam, because there is a lot of silt, which is great for farming, finally the Nile fans out to form a Delta and deposits into the Mediterranean Sea