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Bodies of Water
bodies of water
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| flows from Burundi to Mediterranean Sea; comes from the Blue Nile, which arises from Ethiopia's Lake Tana and meets the longer White Nile, whose headwaters include Lake Victoria, at Khartoum; also site of Aswan High Dam, which forms Lake Nasser | Nile River |
| Africa's second-longest river; flows past the world capitals of Kinshasa and Brazzaville; setting for Conrad's Heart of Darkness | Congo River |
| rises in Angola, passes through Zambia, flows along Namibia, Botswana, and Zimbabwe, crosses through Mozambique, and enters the Indian Ocean's Mozambique Channel; separates Zambia from Zimbabwe; home of Victoria Falls (largest by flow in Africa) | Zambezi River |
| Africa's third-longest; flows through Guinea, Mali, Niger, and Nigeria before entering the Gulf of Guinea. The medieval Mali and Songhai Empires were centered on it; its course was mapped by Scottish explorer Mungo Park in the 1790s | Niger River |
| Rises as Crocodile River in South Africa; forms the Transvaal's border with Botswana and Zimbabwe; crosses through Mozambique; described by Kipling in "The Elephant's Child" as "the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees" | Limpopo River |
| flows from central Angola, through Namibia's Caprivi Strip, and into the Kalahari Desert of Botswana; rather than flowing into the sea, it terminates in a massive inland swamp known as the Okavango Delta | Okavango River |
| located at the northern tip of the Red Sea, east of the Sinai Peninsula and west of the Arabian mainland; its coastline is divided between Egypt, Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia | Gulf of Aqaba |
| on West African coast, in easternmost part of Gulf of Guinea; extends from delta of the Niger in the north to Cape Lopez in Gabon; shared by Nigeria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, São Tomé and Príncipe, and Gabon | Bight of Bonny (Bight of Biafra) |
| connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and separates Iberian Penninsula and Spain in Europe from Morocco in Africa | Strait of Gibraltar |
| in the Mediterranean Sea on the northern coast of Libya; | Gulf of Sidra |
| one of the African Great Lakes; located in the center of the continent, on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Lake Albert |
| formerly Lake Rudolf; in Kenyan Rift Valley, with far northern end crossing into Ethiopia; the world's largest permanent desert lake and the world's largest alkaline lake; world's fourth-largest salt lake by volume after Caspian Sea, Issyk-Kul, Lake Van | Lake Turkana |
| the world's oldest lake; located in the south of the Russian region of Siberia; most voluminous freshwater lake in the world, containing roughly 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water | Lake Baikal |
| largest of North America's Great Lakes; world's third-largest freshwater lake by volume | Lake Superior |
| bounded to east by Ontario and to west by Michigan; connects to Lake Michigan via Straits of Mackinac; named for tribe native to area | Lake Huron |
| bounded to north by Ontario, to the south by Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York, and to west by Michigan | Lake Erie |
| bounded on the north and southwest by Ontario, and on the south by the American state of New York; only Great Lake not to border Michigan; is outlet to Atlantic Ocean via the St. Lawrence River | Lake Ontario |
| only Great Lake lying entirelly within United States; connects to Lake Huron via Straits of Mackinac | Lake Michigan |
| largest salt water lake in Western Hemisphere; in surface area, it's largest lake in US after the Great Lakes; remnant of prehistoric Lake Bonneville | Great Salt Lake |
| largest reservoir in US; on Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona; created by Hoover Dam | Lake Mead |
| lies between New York state and Vermont and therefore Adirondack Mountains and Green Mountains; site of Fort Ticonderoga; Quebec is to its north | Lake Champlain |
| longest river on the American east coast that drains into the Atlantic Ocean; runs from New York state, through PA, MD, into Chesapeake Bay; Harrisburg, PA is on it | Susquehanna River |
| first mapped by Henry Hudson in 1609; christened the South River in New Netherland, in contrast to North River, as Hudson River was then known; divides PA/NJ; flows past Trenton and Philadelphia | Delaware River |
| largest tributary, by volume, of the Mississippi River; Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join to form it in Pittsburg, PA | Ohio River |
| flows on the Allegheny Plateau in north-central West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania; joins the Allegheny River to form the Ohio River at Pittsburgh | Mononghohela River |
| the main tributary of the Ohio River; joins with the Allegheny River in Pittsburgh to form the Ohio | Allegheny River |
| rises in northern Minnesota and meanders slowly southwards for 2,530 miles to the Gulf of Mexico | Mississippi River |
| generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the US states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas; its initial basin starts in the Western United States in Colorado; major tributary of the Mississippi | Arkansas River |
| longest river in North America and a major waterway of the central United States; rises in the Rocky Mountains of western Montana; flows east and south for 2,341 miles before entering the Mississippi River north of St. Louis, Missouri | Missouri River |
| flows in Virginia; once named Powhatan River for the chief of the Powhatan Confederacy which extended over most of the Tidewater region of Virginia; later named for King of England | James River |
| runs through Chicago; links Great Lakes and Mississippi Valley; dyed green on St. Patrick's Day | Chicago River |
| flows through Massachusetts, emptying into Atlantic at Boston | Charles River |
| largest river in Pacific Northwes; rises in Rocky Mountains of BC, Canada; flows into the U.S. state of Washington, forms border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into Pacific Ocean; home of Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams | Columbia River |
| flows from Colorado to the Gulf of Mexico, forming natural border between U. S. and Mexico | Rio Grande River |
| empties into Gulf of California between Baja California and Sonora; flows through the Grand Canyon; creates Lake Mead at the Hoover Dam on AZ/NV border | Colorado River |
| rises on the Tibetan Plateau and flows into the Yellow Sea across northern China; its history of flooding the North China Plain has led to its name "China's Sorrow" | Huang He |
| in Wyoming, Idaho, Oregon, Washington; largest tributary of Columbia River | Snake River |
| in Nebraska; tributary of Missouri River | Platte River |
| flows from British Columbia, Canada through Yukon Territory then through Alaska to Bering Sea | Yukon River |
| a river in Eastern Europe. It runs first through Ukraine and then through Moldova (where it separates the breakaway territory of Transnistria), finally discharging into the Black Sea on Ukrainian territory again. | Dniester River |
| rises in the Ch'ang-pai Mountains of China and its name is derived from the words for duck and greenish blue; forms the northwestern boundary between North Korea and China | Yalu River |
| a freshwater lake located in the Republic of Karelia and Leningrad Oblast in northwestern Russia just outside the outskirts of Saint Petersburg. It is the largest lake in Europe, and the 14th largest freshwater lake by area in the world. | Lake Ladoga |
| located along border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City; largest alpine lake in North America; second-deepest in US | Lake Tahoe |
| world's second-largest freshwater lake by area; lies along the Equator and is shared between Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania; its lone outlet is the Victoria Nile, a precursor of the White Nile | Lake Victoria |
| Africa's second-largest lake by area, second-deepest in the world (to Lake Baikal); source of the Lualaba River; shared by Tanzania, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Zambia; on it shore at Ujiji, Tanzania, Stanley "found" Dr. Livingstone in 1871 | Lake Tanganyika |
| its surface area has been reduced by over 90% since the 1960s; at the intersection of Chad, Cameroon, Niger, and Nigeria; very shallow | Lake Chad |
| Africa's third-largest lake by area and the southernmost of the Great Rift Valley lakes, wedged between Malawi, Tanzania, and Mozambique | Lake Malawi (or Lake Nyasa) |
| largest man-made lake, by area, in the world; created by the construction of Ghana's Akosombo Dam across the Volta River | Lake Volta |
| located in Egypt; nicknamed "highway to India"; connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea; | Suez Canal |
| runs from Albany, NY to Buffalo, NY; opened in 1825; nicknamed "Clinton's folly"/"Clinton's ditch" for gov. DeWitt Clinton | Erie Canal |
| connects Pacific O. with Atlantic (via Carribean); completed in 1914; elimated need to round Cape Horn | Panama Canal |
| longest river in Asia, third longest in the world; rises in the Kunlun Mountains, flows across the Tibetan Plateau, empties into South China Sea; site of Three Gorges Dam, world's largest dam | Yangtze River |
| rises in Tibetan Himalayas, flows through Bangladesh, merges with Ganges to form world's largest delta | Brahmaputra River |
| China's second-longest; flows into the Bohai Gulf of Yellow Sea; name comes from the extraordinary amount of loess silt that it carries; Grand Canal from Ming Dynasty connects it with Yangtze | Yellow River |
| holiest river of Hinduism; rises in the Himalayas and flows to the world's largest delta on the Bay of Bengal; 1 in 12 of all people in world live in its basin | Ganges River |
| chief river of Southeast Asia; originates in eastern Tibet, forms much of the Laos-Thailand border, flows through Cambodia, enters South China Sea in southern Vietnam; capital cities of Vientiane and Phnom Penh are on it | Mekong River |
| eastern of two rivers outlining Mesopotamia ("The Land Between Two Rivers"), home to ancient civilizations Sumer and Akkad; rises in Turkey, flows by Mosul, Tikrit, Baghdad; joins Euphrates to make the Shatt-al-Arab, which empties into Persian Gulf | Tigris River |
| the western border of Mesopotamia; it also rises in the Zagros Mountains of Turkey and its shores are home to Fallujah and Babylon | Euphrates River |
| chief river of Myanmar (a.k.a. Burma); flows past Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and Mandalay to Gulf of Martaban, an arm of Bay of Bengal; delta is one of the world's most important rice-growing regions; name is thought to come from Sanskrit for "elephant" | Irrawaddy River |
| chief river of Pakistan and source of the name of India; rises in Tibet and flows to delta on the Arabian Sea southeast of Karachi; cradle of the Indus Valley Civilization | Indus River |
| rises in Syria near Mount Hermon; flows to Lake Merom, through the Sea of Galilee, and into the Dead Sea, which lies 1,300 feet below sea level; forms Jordan's boundary with the West Bank and northern Israel; site of the baptism of John the Baptist | Jordan River |
| Southwest of Greece | Ionian Sea |
| Off of Australia's Southeastern coast | Tasman Sea |
| Off of Australia's Northeastern coast | Coral Sea |
| Between Egypt and Saudi Arabia | Red Sea |
| East of Italy | Adriatic Sea |
| between Greece and Turkey | Aegean Sea |
| South of France, north of Africa | Mediterranean Sea |
| Between Russia and Alaska | Bering Sea |
| North of Turkey, Europe is to the west | Black Sea |
| North of Iran, East of Georgia | Caspian Sea |
| South of Kazakhstan, North of Uzbekistan; a rapidly shrinking body of water | Aral Sea |
| West of India, East of Oman | Arabian Sea |
| West of Malaysia, East of India | Bay of Bengal |
| East of the Philippines | Philippine Sea |
| East of Vietnam, south of the East China Sea, West of the Philippines | South China Sea |
| South of the Yellow sea, east of China | East China Sea |
| West of the Korean penninsula, north of East China Sea | Yellow Sea |
| Body of water between France and Spain | Bay of Biscay |
| East of Great Britain and north of Denmark | North Sea |
| Located south of Greenland and off the coast of Canada | Labrador Sea |
| connects Great Lakes with Atlantic Ocean; traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and forms part of the international boundary between Ontario and New York in US; explored by Cartier; used by Cabot and Champlain to explore N. America | St. Lawrence River |
| Atlantic Ocean between southern U. S. and Azores | Sargasso Sea |
| North of South America and south of Cuba | Carribean Sea |
| located west of Norway and East of Greenland | Greenland Sea |
| Located between Greenland and Canada | Baffin Bay |
| caldera lake located in the south-central region of Oregon; deepest lake in U.S. | Crater Lake |
| estuary formed by the confluence of the Uruguay River and the Paraná River on the border between Argentina and Uruguay; location of Montevideo and Buenos Aires | Rio de la Plata |
| principal river of Columbia | Magdalena River |
| second longest river in the world and by far the largest by waterflow | Amazon River |
| flows mostly through Venezuela, but partially flows through Columbia; discovered by Columbus during his 3rd voyage | Orinoco River |
| in the Andes on the border of Peru and Bolivia; by volume of water, it is the largest lake in South America | Lake Titicaca |
| longest river in Europe; it is also Europe's largest river in terms of discharge and watershed; flows through central Russia, and is widely viewed as the national river of Russia | Volga River |
| Europe's second longest river after the Volga; originates in the Black Forest of Germany then flows southeast passing through four Central European capitals before emptying into the Black Sea via its delta in Romania and Ukraine | Danube River |
| flows through Russia and Kazakhstan; arises in the southern Ural Mountains and ends at the Caspian Sea; 3rd longest river in Europe | Ural River |
| flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea | Dnieper River |
| a major Russian river; arises south of Moscow and flows to the Sea of Azov; setting for novel And Quiet Flows the Don by Sholokhov | Don River |
| a major river of Central Europe; rises in the Krkonoše Mountains of the northern Czech Republic before traversing much of Bohemia, then Germany and flowing into the North Sea | Elbe River |
| flows from the eastern Swiss Alps to the North Sea coast in the Netherlands | Rhine River |
| rises in Switzerland and runs from there through southeastern France; near its mouth on the Mediterranean Sea, it divides into two branches, known as the Great Rhone and the Little Rhone; resulting delta constitutes the Camargue region | Rhone River |
| the longest river in France; empties into Bay of Biscay on France's west coast | Loire River |
| flows through Paris and into the English Channel at Le Havre | Seine River |
| longest river in Italy; flows into the Adriatic Sea | Po River |
| flows south and divides the west of Ireland from the east and south; ends at Limerick | Shannon River |
| flows through city of Dublin in Ireland | Liffey River |
| flows past Oxford, Reading, and London; longest river entirely in England; second longest (to Severn) in all of United Kingdom | River Thames |
| rises in Apennine Mountains of Italy and flows through Rome | Tiber River |
| longest river in United Kingdom; rises/flows in Wales | River Severn |
| lies between Lake Huron and Lake Erie; lies between the Province of Ontario and the State of Michigan, and its midline also forms the boundary between Canada and the United States of America | Lake St. Clair |
| a bay on the Atlantic coast of North America, on the northeast end of the Gulf of Maine between the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia | Bay of Fundy |
| a sea area bounded by the Jutland peninsula and the Straits islands of Denmark on the west and south, and Sweden on the east. The Baltic Sea drains into the Kattegat through the Øresund and the Danish Straits. | Kattegat |
| the northernmost arm of the Baltic Sea. It is situated between Finland's west coast and Sweden's east coast. In the south of the gulf lie the Åland Islands, between the Sea of Åland and the Archipelago Sea. | Gulf of Bothnia |
| located in the southern Gulf of Bothnia, between the Åland islands and the Swedish mainland. The sea connects Kvarken and the Bothnian Sea with the Baltic Sea proper | Sea of Aland |
| the narrow region in the Gulf of Bothnia separating the Bothnian Bay (the inner part of the gulf) from the Bothnian Sea. | Kvarken |
| a bay of the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Estonia | Gulf of Riga |
| a southern inlet of the Barents Sea located on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola Peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the northeast. | White Sea |
| a marginal sea of the Arctic Ocean,[1] located north of Norway and Russia.[2] Known in the Middle Ages as the Murman Sea, the sea takes its current name from the Dutch navigator Willem Barents | Barents Sea |
| a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway. It is located between the North Sea (i.e. north of Scotland) and the Greenland Sea and adjoins the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast. | Norwegian Sea |
| part of the Arctic Ocean north of Siberia. | Kara Sea |
| a river in northwest Russia which flows north into the Arctic Ocean on the west side of the Ural Mountains | Pechora River |
| a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga and the largest one in discharge | Kama River |
| east of Antarctic Peninsula and south of S. Orkney Island and Scotia Sea | Weddell Sea |
| southeast of Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego | Scotia Sea |
| passae through Tierra del Fuego at Cape Horn | Magellan's Strait |
| south of S. America and west of Antarctic Penninsula | Bellingshausen Sea |
| west of Bellingshausen Sea | Amundsen Sea |
| ocean circumscribing Antarctica | Southern Ocean |
| sea off coast of Mt. Erebus in Antartica | Ross Sea |
| between Iceland and Greenland in Atlantic Ocean | Denmark Strait |
| northeast of Greenland | McKinley Sea |
| between Greenland and Barents Sea | Greenland Sea |
| between Greenland, Iceland, and Norway | Norwegian Sea |
| north of Alaska | Beaufort Sea |
| between Baffin Island and Greenland; entry to Baffin Bay | Davis Strait |
| entry to Hudson Bay (Canada) | Hudson Strait |
| in Russia; northeast of Lake Ladoga | Lake Onega |
| flows through Wales and England; passes through Hereford; setting for Tintern Abbey by Wordsworth | Wye River |
| flows through Florence, Italy | Arno River |
| on border between Switzerland and Germany | Lake Constance |
| in Switzerland and France; home of Geneva and Lausanne | Lake Leman (Lake Geneva) |
| in Ireland; flows into Atlantic | Suir River |
| largest lake in Ireland | Lough Neagh |
| second-largest lake in Turkey; saline | Lake Tuz |
| on southern coast of Turkey | Gulf of Antalya |
| on southern coast of Turkey | Gulf of Alexandretta |
| largest lake in Turkey | Lake Van |
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