Grab Bag #4 - Rivers and Chemistry Flashcards
River in South America and is the largest river by discharge of water
Amazon
10th largest river and seperates Russia from China
Amur
Second largest river in Africa and is the second largest river in the world by discharge
Congo
Europe’s second largest river located in Central and Eastern Europe. It was a long standing barrier for the Roman Empire and is the passes through the 10 countires, the most out of any other river in the world
Danube
The longest river of Western Asia and is one of two river that defined mesopotamia. The other river is the Tigris.
Euphrates
River the flows through India and Bangladesh and it eventaully empties into the Bay of Bengal
Ganges
One of the three great Siberian rivers that flows into the Arctic Ocean, the second largest Arctic river, and is the largest who’s catchement is entirley into Russia.
Lena
A trans-boundary river in southeast Asia and is the 12th world’s longest river and is 7th longest river in Asia.
Mekong
North flowing river in Africa and is considered the longest river in the world. It gave rise to the early Egyptian civilization
Nile
One of 2 rivers that defined Mesopotamia and flows southeastern through Turkey and Iraq, eventually emptying into the Persian Gulf
Tigris
Longest river in Asia and is the third longest river in the world. It is also the longest river in the world the flows through entirley one country.
Yangtze
This river, which is named after the color it appears, is the second longest river in Asia and is the 6th longest river system in the world.
Yellow
Major river in North America that flows through Canada and Alaska that is connected to the bering sea. It is named for the area in which it is located in.
Yukon
How easily something can be flattened, shaped, or pressed.
Malleability
How reactive something is to oxygen, water, light, etc.
Reacitivity
