Managing Catchments T2

Question 1

What continent is the Danude River in?

Answer 1

Europe

Question 2

What continent is the Congo River in?

Answer 2

Africa (south)

Question 3

What continent is the Ganges River in?

Answer 3

South Asia (India)

Question 4

What continent is the Hwang Ho River in?

Answer 4

East Asia (China - Top one) 
Also called Yellow River

Question 5

What continent is the Amazon River in?

Answer 5

South America (North East)

Question 6

What continent is the Mississippi River in?

Answer 6

North America (USA)

Question 7

What continent is the Nile River in?

Answer 7

Africa (North East)

Question 8

What continent is the Yangtze River in?

Answer 8

East Asia (China - Lower one)

Question 9

What continent is the Mekong River in?

Answer 9

South Asia (Thailand)

Question 10

What continent are the Andes in?

Answer 10

South America (West side)

Question 11

What continent are the Rockies in?

Answer 11

North America (USA)

Question 12

What is an Esturary

Answer 12

The wide, low part of a river before it goes into the ocean

Question 13

What is the Source of a river?

Answer 13

Where a river begins at a spring, glacier or lake

Question 14

What is a watershed?

Answer 14

The highland that separates two drainage basins (catchments)

Question 15

What is a Tributary?

Answer 15

A smaller river that feeds a major river

Question 16

What is Confluence of a river?

Answer 16

Where two streams or a river meets

Question 17

What is the Mouth of a river?

Answer 17

Where the river flows into the sea

Question 18

What is a Catchment?

Answer 18

The area drained by a river and its tributaries. Also known as a drainage basin

Question 19

What is precipitation?

Answer 19

Rain

Question 20

What is condensation?

Answer 20

Water condensing into clouds

Question 21

What is overland flow?

Answer 21

When excess water flows down the land

Question 22

What is Transpiration?

Answer 22

The process of plants giving off water vapour

Question 23

What is evaporation?

Answer 23

Water converting from liquid to gas and rising into the air

Question 24

What is infiltration?

Answer 24

water seeping into the soil

Question 25

What is Percolation?

Answer 25

water seeping into the rock layer

Question 26

What is groundwater flow?

Answer 26

percolated water flowing under ground in the rock layer

Question 27

What is Through flow?

Answer 27

Infiltrated water that flows underground in the soil layer

Question 28

What is a delta?

Answer 28

the area of land that is formed by a river and its tributaries/distributaries depositing sediment

Question 29

What is a distributary?

Answer 29

Tributaries of a river that flow out wards from the river and distribute the river’s water

Question 30

what countries does the ganges go through?

Answer 30

China, India, Nepal and Bangladesh

Question 31

what countries does the amazon river go through?

Answer 31

Peru, Colombia, Brazil

Question 32

what countries does the Hwang ho river go through?

Answer 32

china

Question 33

what countries does the danube river go through?

Answer 33

Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine

Question 34

what countries does the nile river go through?

Answer 34

Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo-Kinshasa, Kenya, Ethiopia, Eritrea, South Sudan, Sudan and Egypt

Question 35

what countries does the yangtze river go through?

Answer 35

china

Question 36

what country is the mississippi river in?

Answer 36

USA

Question 37

what country does the congo river go through?

Answer 37

Angola, Zambia, Tanzania, Central African Republic and Cameroon

Question 38

what country does the mekong river go through?

Answer 38

China, Myanmar (Burma), Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.