World Water

Question 1

Mouth

Answer 1

River ends at the mouth

Question 2

Source of a river

Answer 2

River starts at the source

Question 3

Aquifer

Answer 3

Underground river or lake

Question 4

Lake Superior

Answer 4

Largest lake in the world

Question 5

Nile River

Answer 5

LONGEST river in world

Question 6

Mississippi River

Answer 6

most important River system in US

Question 7

Missouri River

Answer 7

Longest river in US

Feeds Mississippi River

Question 8

Gulf of Mexico

Answer 8

Where Mississippi River empties out

Question 9

Archipelago

Answer 9

Group of islands

Question 10

Delta

Answer 10

Triangular shape collection of dirt at mouth of a River

Question 11

Isthmus

Answer 11

Land bridge connecting two large land masses and has water on TWO sides

Question 12

Canal

Answer 12

Waterway dug across land

Question 13

Suez Canal

Answer 13

Connects Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf

Question 14

Tributary

Answer 14

Smaller river that runs into larger river

Question 15

Peninsula

Answer 15

Land mass surrounded by water on three sides

Question 16

Strait

Answer 16

Water passage between land masses

Question 17

Harbor

Answer 17

Like a bay but safe for ships

Smaller than a gulf

Question 18

Bay

Answer 18

Body of water in a lake or ocean forming part of a circle along the shore that protects the shore
(Bigger than a cove, smaller than a gulf)

Question 19

Baikal

Answer 19

DEEPEST lake in the world located in Russia

Question 20

Yangtze River

Answer 20

Yellow River

Located in China

Question 21

Ocean

Answer 21

Large body of salt water

Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Arctic (near north), Southern (near Antartica)

Question 22

river basin

Answer 22

All the land that catches water and drains it to the river

Question 23

River system

Answer 23

Watershed of a river and the river basin and the river’s tributaries including the source, the mouth and the delta of the River