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
Materials that don’t occur in nature, but are instead made from natural resources that undergo a chemical change.
Synthetic Materials
When vapor turns to liquid.
Condensation
Solids that change directly to vapors.
Sublimation
Vapors change directly into solids.
Deposition
Vertical columns on a periodic table.
Group
Horizontal rows on a periodic table.
Period
Unit most commonly used for pressure.
Pascal (Pa) or Atmosphere(atm)
The simplest compund that has two atoms.
Diatomic Molecule
Only two non-silvery metals
Gold and Copper
This substance is considered a liquid, but flows very very slowly.
Glass
What two things are made up of entirely carbon and nothing else.
Diamond and Graphite
What toxic substance is in air bags.
Salt Sodium Azide
The only person able to write his address in chemical elements.
Glenn Seaborg
Mars gets its red color from this substance.
Iron Oxide
Bee stings are ___ while wasp stings are ___
Acidic and Alkaline
The softest substance accoridng to the Mohs scale.
Talc
Heaviest element in thw world.
Osmium
Rarest element on the Earth.
Astatine
