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Rivers
| Clue | River |
|---|---|
| the longest river in Europe | Volga |
| flows past Kazan, Saratov, and Astrakhan and empties into the Caspian Sea | Volga |
| flamingos and pelicans can be seen in its delta | Volga |
| ends near Venice | Po |
| flows through the cities of Piacenza and Turin | Po |
| connected to Milan by channels | Po |
| rises in Czechia (Krkonose Mountains of the Sudetenland) | Elbe (Labe) |
| flows through Dresden, Dessau, Magdeburg, Wittenberg, Hamburg and empties into the North Sea | Elbe (Labe) |
| Ukraine (forms the border with Belarus) | Dnieper |
| flows through Kyiv, Kherson, and Smolensk and empties into the Black Sea | Dnieper |
| flows through London | Thames |
| Henley Royal Regata | Thames |
| called Isis through Oxford | Thames |
| “frost fairs” held during the Little Ice Age | Thames |
| “Great Stink” because of pollution | Thames |
| Tower Bridge | Thames |
| London Bridge (Robert McCulloch relocated an old one to Lake Havasu City in Arizona) | Thames |
| Millenium Bridge | Thames |
| flows through Florence and Pisa | Arno |
| longest in Ireland | Shannon |
| is only crossable in 30 places | Shannon |
| flows through Paris | Seine |
| Joan of Arc’s ashes were thrown into this river from the Mathilde Bridge | Seine |
| Île de la Cité is in the middle of it and includes the Notre-Dame cathedral | Seine |
| crossed by 37 bridges | Seine |
| Pont d'Arc was built to limit Viking travel on it | Seine |
| Pont de Normandie | Seine |
| Pont Neuf | Seine |
| Pont des Arts | Seine |
| Starts on Plateau de Langres and it ends on the English Channel | Seine |
| Cities: Troyes, Fontainebleau, Rouen | Seine |
| Tributaries: Marne, Oise | Seine |
| France’s chief transport waterway | Seine |
| the 2nd longest in France | Seine |
| France’s longest river | Loire |
| begins in the Cevennes range of southern France and flows north to Orlean, then flows due west to the Bay of Biscay | Loire |
| flows past Nevers, Orleans, Blois, Tours, and Nantes | Loire |
| Flows west, along the German-Swiss border, then north, along the German-French border | Rhine |
| Joins with Meuse and Scheldt to the North Sea in the Netherlands | Rhine |
| German myth: Lorelei (nymph) | Rhine |
| the principal river of the Iberian peninsula | Tagus |
| passes through Lisbon, Toledo, Santarem, Aranjuez | Tagus |
| Hydroelectric dams and artificial lakes, including the Sea of Castile | Tagus |
| flows through Lake Geneva and the cities of Geneva, Lyon, Avignon, Arles, and Marseille | Rhone |
| valley famous for red wine | Rhone |
| navigable for a lot of the river; key access route for South France | Rhone |
| begins in Germany’s Black Forest and ends in the Black Sea | Danube |
| passes through or touches the borders of 10 nations | Danube |
| 1785 miles | Danube |
| tributaries: Drava and Sava | Danube |
| passes through 4 national capitals: Vienna (Austria), Bratislava (Slovakia), Budapest (Hungary), Belgrade (Serbia) | Danube |
| forms part of the Germany-Poland border as dictated at the Potsdam Conference | Oder |
| flows past Ostrava in the Czech Republic and Breslau in Poland and empties into the Baltic | Oder |
| the longest river in Poland | Vistula |
| flows past Krakow, Warsaw and empties into the Baltic Sea at Gdańsk | Vistula |
| Auschwitz is on the river (the ashes of many Jews were dumped in the river) | Vistula |
| Two main branches (White and Blue) meet in Khartoum (White Nile at Lake Victoria and Blue Nile at Lake Tana) | Nile |
| Huge delta in Egypt at the Mediterranean Sea | Nile |
| System at cataracts | Nile |
| Aswan High/Low Dams forms Lake Nasser/Lake Nubia | Nile |
| Elephantine Island (Hapi (caverns at Elephantine)) | Nile |
| Flooding required for agriculture (Isis tears for Osiris; coming of Hapi) | Nile |
| 2nd longest in Africa | Congo |
| Sources are the Lualaba and Chambeshi rivers; Ultimately Lake Tanganyika | Congo |
| It starts at Boyoma Falls in the DRC (Formally called Stanley Falls) | Congo |
| Forms Malebo Pool (sometimes Pool Malebo) near Kinshasa and Brazzaville | Congo |
| Ingra Dams | Congo |
| 3rd longest in Africa | Niger |
| Cuts through Nigeria, Niger, Mali, and Guinea | Niger |
| Mali Empire and Songhai Empire located along the river | Niger |
| Segou, Djenne, and Timbuktu visited by Mungo Park | Niger |
| Benue River is the main tributary | Niger |
| Huge delta on the Gulf of Guinea | Niger |
| 4th longest in Africa | Zambezi |
| Starts in Angola and cuts across southern Africa to the Indian Ocean | Zambezi |
| Delta in Mozambique | Zambezi |
| That funny little stip at the top of Namibia was created to access the Zambezi (Caprivi Strip) | Zambezi |
| Lots of tributaries, but the Kabompo comes up a bit (the Shire too) | Zambezi |
| Explored by David Livingstone | Zambezi |
| Victoria Falls - mile-wide falls | Zambezi |
| Kariba Dam & Cabora Bassa Dam | Zambezi |
| Flows from Angola through Namibia to Botswana | Okavango |
| Flows into the Kalahari Desert | Okavango |
| ‘Ends’ in the Okavango Delta (Inland delta that basically is a big swamp) | Okavango |
| During the wet season, it is one of the most significant wildlife densities in the world | Okavango |
| Moremi Game Reserve sits on the eastern side of the delta | Okavango |
| Fills Lake Ngami and once flowed into Lake Makgadikgadi (now salt pans, basically lifeless) | Okavango |
| Forms where the Marico and Crocodile Rivers converge | Limpopo |
| Flows from the east of the Kalahari through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean near Xia-Xia | Limpopo |
| Forms the northern border betwixt South Africa and Zimbabwe | Limpopo |
| Called Espiritu Santo River by Vasco de Gama | Limpopo |
| Rudyard Kipling called it the “great grey-green, greasy...set about with fever-trees” | Limpopo |
| The longest river in South Africa | Orange |
| Vanderkloof Dam | Orange |
| Second longest in the US | Mississippi |
| Atchafalaya River is a distributary | Mississippi |
| flows through or past Minneapolis, St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans | Mississippi |
| Originates in Lake Itasca, Minnesota | Mississippi |
| Ohio, Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Illinois Rivers are tributaries | Mississippi |
| starts at Pittsburgh and goes west forming numerous borders | Ohio |
| confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers | Ohio |
| Longest in the US | Missouri |
| meets the Mississippi at St. Louis | Missouri |
| Lewis and Clark sailed up it | Missouri |
| flows past Bismark, Sioux Falls, Omaha, Kansas City, Jefferson City | Missouri |
| formed by the confluence of the Gallatin, Madison, and Jefferson Rivers | Missouri |
| Tributaries: Osage, Platt, and Yellowstone Rivers | Missouri |
| Garrison Dam forms Lake Sakakawea | Missouri |
| the largest tributary of the Ohio River | Tennessee |
| formed by the confluence of the Holston and French Broad Rivers | Tennessee |
| flows by Chattanooga and Knoxville | Tennessee |
| Tennessee Valley Authority created by the New Deal | Tennessee |
| begins in Colorado and flows past Wichita, Tulsa, and Little Rock | Arkansas |
| forms the boundary between Oklahoma and Texas | Red River (of the South) |
| rises in the Texas Panhandle | Red River (of the South) |
| creates much of the border between North Dakota and Minnesota | Red River (of the North) |
| drains into Lake Winnipeg in Canada | Red River (of the North) |
| flows past Fargo | Red River (of the North) |
| forms part of the boundary between Alabama and Georgia | Chattahoochee |
| flows near Atlanta | Chattahoochee |
| runs through Portland, OR | Columbia |
| forms the border between Washington and Oregon | Columbia |
| Grand Coulee Dam (Franklin D. Roosevelt Lake was formed) | Columbia |
| meets the Columbia at Portland | Willamette |
| runs through Salem, Corvallis, Eugene | Willamette |
| starts in Yellowstone National Park | Snake |
| forms much of the border between Oregon and Idaho | Snake |
| joins the Columbia at Kennewick (Walla Walla County) | Snake |
| flows through Pocatello, Boise, Jackson Hole, Grand Teton National Park | Snake |
| flows through the deepest gorge in North America, Hells Canyon | Snake |
| Milner Dam, Fort Peck, Oahe Dam | Snake |
| goes over Shoshone Falls and Twin Falls | Snake |
| rises in Rocky Mountain National Park | Colorado |
| empties into the Gulf of California | Colorado |
| cuts the Grand Canyon in Arizona | Colorado |
| Hoover Dam near Las Vegas forming Lake Mead | Colorado |
| Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona forms Lake Powell | Colorado |
| joined by the Gunnison and Gila Rivers | Colorado |
| changes in the flow hundreds of years ago created the Salton Sea | Colorado |
| flows through Yuma and Moab | Colorado |
| All-American Canal is used to irrigate the Imperial Valley | Colorado |
| Wahington, D.C., is built on it, meets the Anacostia River there | Potomac |
| rises in West Virginian and empties into the Chesapeake Bay | Potomac |
| forms the border between Virginia and Maryland | Potomac |
| meets the Shenandoah River at Harper’s Ferry | Potomac |
| rises in the Catskills and empties into the Atlantic | Delaware |
| forms the border between Delaware and New Jersey | Delaware |
| flows past Trenton and Philadelphia | Delaware |
| named for the English explorer Henry Hudson | Hudson |
| major river of New York | Hudson |
| Mohawk River is the major tributary | Hudson |
| flows past Albany, West Point | Hudson |
| forms the boundary between Manhattan and New Jersey | Hudson |
| drains the Great Lakes from the northeastern corner of Lake Ontario in the Thousand Islands archipelago | St. Lawrence River |
| First explored and named by Jacques Cartier in the early 16th century | St. Lawrence River |
| forms the border between Ontario and New York | St. Lawrence River |
| receives the Ottawa and Saguenay Rivers | St. Lawrence River |
| flows through Montréal and Quebec City | St. Lawrence River |
| the longest river in Canada | Mackenzie River |
| flows out of the Great Slave Lake | Mackenzie River |
| flows past Fort Providence, Fort Simpson | Mackenzie River |
| empties into the Beaufort Sea of the Arctic Ocean | Mackenzie River |
| named for Scottish explorer Alexander Mackenzie | Mackenzie River |
| forms the border between Texas and four Mexican states | Rio Grande |
| flows south out of Colorado through New Mexico and reaches the border near El Paso | Rio Grande |
| Big Bend National Park is named for a sweeping curve on the river | Rio Grande |
| flows past Laredo and Brownsville | Rio Grande |
| rises in the Andes in Peru and empties into the Atlantic near Marajo Island | Amazon |
| disputed to be the longest river in the world rather than the Nile | Amazon |
| there are no bridges over the Amazon | Amazon |
| meets the Rio Negro near Manaus at the 'Meeting of the Waters' | Amazon |
| Belem is at the mouth of the river | Amazon |
| pink river dolphin (boto) | Amazon |
| Francisco de Orellana led an expedition to find the ‘Land of Cinnamon’ (La Canela) and named it after female warriors | Amazon |
| the basin contains large amounts of charcoal-rich terra preta soil | Amazon |
| connected to the Orinoco by the Casiquiare Canal | Amazon |
| rises in Colombia and flows through Venezuela, and empties into the Atlantic (Gulf of Paria) | Orinoco |
| Casiquiare Canal connects it to the Rio Negro and, ultimately, to the Amazon | Orinoco |
| flows past Ciudad Guyana and Ciudad Bolivar | Orinoco |
| Sir Walter Raleigh sailed down the river looking for El Dorado | Orinoco |
| runs through Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina | Paraná |
| meets the Uruguay River to form the Rio de la Plata | Paraná |
| Itaipu Dam on the border of Brazil and Paraguay | Paraná |
| forms much of the boundary between China and Russia | Amur |
| starts near Lake Baikal in Siberia | Lena |
| Siberian river that empties into the Arctic Ocean (Kara Sea) | Ob |
| tributary is the Irtysh River | Ob |
| Russia and Kazakhstan | Ural |
| rises in the Ural Mountains and empties into the Caspian Sea | Ural |
| with the Ural Mountains, it forms the border between Europe and Asia | Ural |
| rises in Syria from springs near Mount Hermon | Jordan |
| flows south to Lake Merom, through the Sea of Galilee, and into the Dead Sea | Jordan |
| site of the baptism of Jesus by John the Baptist | Jordan |
| defines the western border of Mesopotamia | Euphrates |
| rises in the Zagros Mountains of Turkey | Euphrates |
| flows through Fallujah, Babylon | Euphrates |
| eastern of the two rivers that define the historic region of Mesopotamia (Sumer and Akkad) | Tigris |
| rises in Turkey, then flows by Mosul, Tikrit, Baghdad and empties into the Persian Gulf | Tigris |
| joins the Euphrates to make the Shatt-al-Arab | Tigris |
| river of Pakistan | Indus |
| source of the name of India | Indus |
| rises in Tibet and empties in the Arabian Sea southeast of Karachi | Indus |
| real OGs call it the Ganga | Ganges |
| holiest river of Hinduism | Ganges |
| flows to the world’s largest delta, on the Bay of Bengal | Ganges |
| distributaries are the Hooghly (Kolkata) and the Padma | Ganges |
| the Yamuna joins it at Allahabad | Ganges |
| rises in the Himalayas (Tibet), flows into India and then Bangladesh, and empties into the Bay of Bengal | Brahmaputra |
| it merges with the Ganges to form the world’s largest delta | Brahmaputra |
| Yarlung Tsangpo is the upper portion | Brahmaputra |
| called Jamuna in Bangladesh | Brahmaputra |
| river of Myanmar (Burma) | Irrawaddy |
| flows past Yangon (formerly Rangoon) and Mandalay to the Gulf of Martaban in the Bay of Bengal | Irrawaddy |
| delta is one of the world’s most important rice-growing regions | Irrawaddy |
| name might come from the Sanskrit word for “elephant” | Irrawaddy |
| chief river of Southeast Asia | Mekong |
| giant catfish | Mekong |
| Khone Falls | Mekong |
| forms much of the Laos–Thailand border, then goes through Cambodia | Mekong |
| meets the Ruak River in the Golden Triangle (opium production) | Mekong |
| flows parallel to the Salween and Yangtze through Vientiane, Laos and Phnom Penh, Cambodia and near the Tonlé Sap | Mekong |
| empties into the South China Sea in Vietnam south of Ho Chi Minh City | Mekong |
| the longest river in Asia and the third longest in the world | Yangtze |
| rises in the Kunlun Mountains | Yangtze |
| flows across the Tibetan Plateau and past the cities of Chongqing, Wuhan, Nanjing, and Shanghai and empties into the South China Sea | Yangtze |
| connected to the Yellow River by the Grand Canal | Yangtze |
| Three Gorges Dam, the world’s largest | Yangtze |
| China’s second-longest river | Yellow (Huang He) |
| rises in Qinghai province | Yellow (Huang He) |
| flows into the Bohai Gulf of the Yellow Sea | Yellow (Huang He) |
| name comes from the extraordinary amount of loess silt that it carries | Yellow (Huang He) |
| Grand Canal, rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty, links it to the Yangtze | Yellow (Huang He) |
| rises in the Australian Alps and empties into the Great Australian Bight | Murray |
Created by:
Dr. Corbett