Starter quiz
- How many continents are there?
- '7' ✓
- Rivers drain water from the land and take it to the seas and...
- 'oceans' ✓
- A ______ is a smaller river or stream that joins a bigger river.
- tributary ✓
- meander
- waterfall
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- What is a river confluence?
- Where two rivers meet ✓
- Where the river starts
- Where the river flows into the sea
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- Why do we build dams?
- To create hydroelectric power ✓
- To provide habitats
- To stop fish moving downstrea
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- The width and the depth of a river get larger as the river flows...
- 'downstream' ✓
Exit quiz
- Which continent does not have any large rivers?
- Antarctica ✓
- Africa
- Asia
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- What is the longest river in the world?
- River Amazon
- River Nile ✓
- River Volga
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- How wide is the River Amazon during the dry season?
- 2km
- 5km
- 11km ✓
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- What is the longest river in North America?
- Mississippi ✓
- Loire
- Amazon
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- What are the two tributaries of the River Nile called?
- Blue and White Nile ✓
- Red and Green Nile
- Black and Pink Nile
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- Which of these cities does the River Nile flow through?
- Cape Town
- Cairo ✓
- Copenhagen
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Key learning points
- The Nile, Amazon, Yangtze, Mississippi, Murray and Volga are the longest rivers in each continent.
- Antarctica doesn’t have any permanent long rivers.
- The Nile is the longest river in the world and has two major tributaries the White Nile and the Blue Nile.
- The Nile flows through Cairo and then the river splits into lots of different channels. We call this a delta.
Common misconception
There are long rivers on every continent.
There are no permanent rivers in Antarctica
Keywords
Tributary - A tributary is a smaller river or stream that joins a bigger river.
Confluence - where two rivers meet
Satellite image - a photograph taken from above using a satellite
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