Studying For Test 6

Question 1

What are the two types of deserts?

Answer 1

Reg (rocky desert); erg (sandy)

Question 2

Facts about the Sahara

Answer 2

Size of the U.S.; largest in the world

Question 3

What is an oasis?

Answer 3

Where the water table rises to the surface of the desert

Question 4

Beginning of a river

Answer 4

Headwater

Question 5

End of river (empties into larger body of water)

Answer 5

Mouth

Question 6

Continental divide

Answer 6

Where rivers flow in the opposite direction

Question 7

4 types of water problems

Answer 7

1. Too much water at one time (monsoon)
2. Water at the wrong time (Mediterranean climate/rainy season)
3. Amount of water used for agriculture and industry is waste
4. Sharing water resources (rich countries have ways to use water efficiently and poor countries don’t)

Question 8

Lock

Answer 8

A section of a waterway closed off with gates, in which vessels are raised and lowered by adding or removing water

Question 9

What sentence for the Great Lakes?

Answer 9

Super Man Helps Every One (superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario)

Question 10

Great Lakes

Answer 10

Ontario: smallest
Erie: 570 ft above sea level
Huron: second largest
Michigan: not shared with Canada
Superior: largest freshwater lake

Question 11

True/False: No other rivers flow into the Mississippi

Answer 11

F

Question 12

What is a delta?

Answer 12

A low lying area located at the mouth of a river formed by deposits of alluvial soil

Question 13

Alluvial soil

Answer 13

Soil that is carried/suspended in water

Question 14

Colorado river flows through….

Answer 14

The Grand Canyon

Question 15

North Atlantic Drift

Answer 15

A powerful current of warm water that moves from the Caribbean to Europe and the United States

Question 16

What causes the temp to be more moderate in London than in Calgary?

Answer 16

North Atlantic drift

Question 17

Palindrome for the Panama Canal?

Answer 17

A man a plan a canal Panama

Question 18

Isthmus

Answer 18

Narrow strip of land connecting two larger land masses

Question 19

Amazon, 2 facts:

Answer 19

1. 2nd biggest river in the world
2. 32 million gallons of water into the atlantic

Question 20

Amazon

Answer 20

1. 2nd biggest river in the world
2. 32 million gallons of water into the Atlantic

Question 21

Nile river, 2 facts:

Answer 21

1. Headwater is in Brindie
2. Largest river in the world

Question 23

Congo:

Answer 23

1. 2nd longest in Africa

Question 24

Niger

Answer 24

Main river in west Africa

Question 25

Zambezi river

Answer 25

Empties into the Indian Ocean

Question 26

Tigris and Euphrates

Answer 26

1.historically surround Babylonia 2. Near modern -day Iraq & Iran

Question 27

Ganges

Answer 27

Sacred to Hindu people in India

Question 28

Yellow RIver

Answer 28

Earliest civilizations; picks up yellow soil

Question 29

Yangtze River

Answer 29

3rd longest river in the world

Question 30

True of False Europe has high population density

Answer 30

True

Question 31

Most of Europe’s economy is based on

Answer 31

Services

Question 32

Seine River

Answer 32

1.Paris, France 2. Roots back to pre-Roman times

Question 33

Rhine River

Answer 33

1.Europe’s most important river 2. Serves as a busy highway carrying iron on barges

Question 34

Danube River

Answer 34

1. Hungary 2. Touches more countries than any other river in the world

Question 35

Volga river

Answer 35

1. Largest river in Europe 2. Most important in Russia

Question 36

Thames river

Answer 36

1. Important in London (Big Ben, etc.) 2. 210 miles long

Question 37

True of False: Australia is mostly desert

Answer 37

T

Question 38

longest river in Australia

Answer 38

Murray

Question 39

Landlocked country

Answer 39

Not near the ocean

Question 40

2 bodies of water does Rhine-Main-Danube Waterway connect?

Answer 40

The North to the Black Sea

Question 41

City through which the Rhine-Main-Waterway passes

Answer 41

Budapest, Bamburg, Vienna