Chapters 11-15

Question 1

Longest river in the U.S.

Answer 1

Missouri

Question 2

its source is in Tibet

Answer 2

Yangtze

Question 3

“river in the sea”

Answer 3

Gulf Stream

Question 4

flows through rain forest

Answer 4

Amazon

Question 5

rim of the Pacific basin that has lots of earthquakes and active volcanos

Answer 5

ring of fire

Question 6

a Swiss naturalist that studied glaciers and fossils

Answer 6

Louis Agassiz

Question 7

flows south to north almost in a straight line

Answer 7

Nile

Question 8

caused the formation of the Great Lakes and an ice sheet all the way to the Mediterranean Sea

Answer 8

Ice Age

Question 9

first textbook about the ocean

Answer 9

Geography of the Sea

Question 10

Largest river flow by volume in U.S.

Answer 10

Mississippi

Question 11

Spanish explorer who first saw the Mississippi River

Answer 11

Hernando de Soto

Question 12

River that carries the largest volume of water in the world.

Answer 12

Amazon

Question 13

longest river

Answer 13

Nile

Question 14

lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere

Answer 14

solid, liquid, gas

Question 15

a large body of ice on land

Answer 15

glacier

Question 16

developed the Theory of Evolution and believed the surface features of the earth were caused by natural forces, not Noah’s flood

Answer 16

Charles Darwin

Question 17

famous artist who made drawings of Yellowstone Park

Answer 17

Thomas Moran

Question 18

largest river by water flo

Answer 18

Amazon

Question 19

What causes ocean currents?

Answer 19

Surface water is cooled in polar regions. Cold water sinks (more dense than warm water), and warm water from the equator flows out to take its place.

Question 20

along its banks are pyramids

Answer 20

Nile

Question 21

traced out ocean currents

Answer 21

Matthew Maury

Question 22

flows through Central Asia

Answer 22

Yangtze

Question 23

explored the Missouri River and the Louisiana Territory

Answer 23

Lewis & Clark

Question 24

first European to explore the Amazon River

Answer 24

Francisco de Orellana

Question 25

Explain what caused deep grooves in solid rock in valley walls, and caused boulders to do the southern plains far from the mountains of their origin.

Answer 25

Glaciers move, pressing boulders against valley walls, carving deep grooves. Glaciers carried the boulders to the southern plain, leaving them as they melted

Question 26

the origin of this river is snow in Africa's great central highlands

Answer 26

Nile

Question 27

Longest river in the world:

Answer 27

Nile

Question 28

the primary factor in giving ocean currents their life

Answer 28

temperature differences