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Chap19 Nile River
Chapter 26 Nile Rive
Question | Answer |
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What is the longest river in the world? | Nile River |
What lake is the source (beginning) of the White Nile River | Lake Victoria |
What lake is the source (beginning) of the Blue Nile River | Lake Tana |
What Egyptian capital city is along the Nile River? | Cairo |
What is As Sudd? | Swampy area along the Nile River |
Where do the White Nile and Blue Nile meet? | Khartoum |
What is the White Nile like? | Slow and light color |
What is the Blue Nile like? | Fast and dark color |
What is a wadi? | a dry riverbed that quickly fills with water and can become dangerous |
What is a cataract? | fast flowing water along rocks and islands, very dangerous |
What is a delta? | the end of a river |
What dam did the Egyptians build along the Nile River? | Aswan High Dam |
What lake was created by the Aswan Dam? | Lake Nasser |
What crop is grown along the Nile River | cotton |
What part of the Nile River does not have a large population because of the Sahara Desert? | arid landscape |
What area along the Nile River looks like a big "S" through the Sahara Desert? | the great bend |
What desert does the Nile River flow through? | Sahara |
Where is Lake Victoria? | Uganda |
Where is Lake Tana | Ethiopia |
What is hydroelectric potential? | electrical power caused by flowing water |
What is perennial irrigation? | the year-long watering of crops |
What is a river basin? | an area drained by a river and its tributaries |
What is the water cycle? | the movement of water from the earth to the atmosphere and back |
Who found the source (beginning) of the White Nile River? | John Hanning Speke |