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Question	Answer
What is another term for "river system"?	Watershed or river basin
Name at least 2 countries that the Nile goes through.	Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Tanzania
What is a wadi?	a dry riverbed that fills during a rainstorm
What is a river mouth?	the end of a river
What direction does the Nile flow?	North
What is infiltration?	the movement of water from Earth's surface into the soil
What is a confluence?	flowing together or two streams
What is the water cycle?	the movement of water from the surface of the Earth to the atmosphere and back again
What is a floodplain?	the flat area around a river that is covered with sediment as a result of flooding; makes good farmland
What is a river basin?	the area drained by a river and its tributaries
How does a delta form?	A river drops off all of the sand and sediment it has been carrying in front of itself at the mouth of the river; then the river must push through this deposit to make its way out to the sea
What is a cataract?	rapids or low waterfalls
What is a source?	what a stream or river originates from
What is runoff?	water from rainfall that is not absorbed into the soil and flows into lakes
Describe where the Nile is in Africa.	Northeast Africa; on the eastern side of the Sahara
What are headwaters?	streams that make up the beginning of a river
What is a reservoir?	An artificial lake created by a dam
What is a delta?	the triangle shaped deposit of sediment where a river flows into the ocean
What 2 rivers join to form the main Nile?	Blue and White Nile
What is a tributary?	a stream or river that flows into a larger stream

Watershed or river basin	Question: What is another term for "river system"?	1	1	false
Tanzania	Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, _____	2	1	true
during	a dry riverbed that fills _____ a rainstorm	3	1	true
What is a river mouth?	Answer: the end of a river	4	0	false
direction	What _____ does the Nile flow?	5	0	true
What is infiltration?	Answer: the movement of water from Earth's surface into the soil	6	0	false
What is a confluence?	Answer: flowing together or two streams	7	0	false
What is the water cycle?	Answer: the movement of water from the surface of the Earth to the atmosphere and back again	8	0	false
around	the flat area _____ a river that is covered with sediment as a result of flooding; makes good farmland	9	1	true
drained	the area _____ by a river and its tributaries	10	1	true
through	A river drops off all of the sand and sediment it has been carrying in front of itself at the mouth of the river; then the river must push _____ this deposit to make its way out to the sea	11	1	true
rapids or low waterfalls	Question: What is a cataract?	12	1	false
What is a source?	Answer: what a stream or river originates from	13	0	false
What is runoff?	Answer: water from rainfall that is not absorbed into the soil and flows into lakes	14	0	false
Africa	Describe where the Nile is in _____.	15	0	true
beginning	streams that make up the _____ of a river	16	1	true
artificial	An _____ lake created by a dam	17	1	true
What is a delta?	Answer: the triangle shaped deposit of sediment where a river flows into the ocean	18	0	false
Blue and White Nile	Question: What 2 rivers join to form the main Nile?	19	1	false
larger	a stream or river that flows into a _____ stream	20	1	true