Rivers Flashcards
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Colorado river
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Southwestern USA
Rocky Mountain nation park to gulf of California
Grand Canyon river
Hoover dam (lake mead) glen canyon dam (lake Powell)
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Mississippi
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Second longest in n. America
“Father of waters”
Lake itasca Minnesota to Gulf of Mexico
Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, New Orleans
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Ohio river
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Central-east (border between north and south)
Pittsburgh (allegheny and monongahela river join) flows to Cairo Illinois and joins Mississippi
Wheeling, Cincinnati, Louisville, Evansville