FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT BODIES OF WATER

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT BODIES OF WATER

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-Guarantee passing score -146 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: rises in the Ch'ang-pai Mountains of China and its name is derived from the words for duck and greenish blue; forms the northwestern boundary between North Korea and China

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Yalu River

Question 2: passae through Tierra del Fuego at Cape Horn

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Magellan's Strait

Question 3: flows from Russia, through Belarus and Ukraine, to the Black Sea

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Dnieper River Question 4: longest river in Asia, third longest in the world; rises in the Kunlun Mountains, flows across the Tibetan Plateau, empties into South China Sea; site of Three Gorges Dam, world's largest dam

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Yangtze River

Question 5: Between Russia and Alaska

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Bering Sea Question 6: flows through Russia and Kazakhstan; arises in the southern Ural Mountains and ends at the Caspian Sea; 3rd longest river in Europe

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Ural River Question 7: connects Pacific O. with Atlantic (via Carribean); completed in 1914; elimated need to round Cape Horn

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Panama Canal

Question 8: flows through Florence, Italy

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Arno River Question 9: South of Kazakhstan, North of Uzbekistan; a rapidly shrinking body of water

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Aral Sea

Question 10: northeast of Greenland

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McKinley Sea

Question 11: North of Iran, East of Georgia

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Caspian Sea Question 12: flows from Burundi to Mediterranean Sea; comes from the Blue Nile, which arises from Ethiopia's Lake Tana and meets the longer White Nile, whose headwaters include Lake Victoria, at Khartoum; also site of Aswan High Dam, which forms Lake Nasser

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Nile River

Question 13: a major river in Russia, the longest left tributary of the Volga and the largest one in discharge

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Kama River Question 14: connects Great Lakes with Atlantic Ocean; traverses the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario and forms part of the international boundary between Ontario and New York in US; explored by Cartier; used by Cabot and Champlain to explore N. America

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St. Lawrence River Question 15: a marginal sea in the North Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Norway. It is located between the North Sea (i.e. north of Scotland) and the Greenland Sea and adjoins the North Atlantic Ocean to the west and the Barents Sea to the northeast.

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Norwegian Sea

Question 16: second-largest lake in Turkey; saline

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Lake Tuz Question 17: Rises as Crocodile River in South Africa; forms the Transvaal's border with Botswana and Zimbabwe; crosses through Mozambique; described by Kipling in "The Elephant's Child" as "the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees"

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Limpopo River

Question 18: located west of Norway and East of Greenland

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Greenland Sea Question 19: chief river of Pakistan and source of the name of India; rises in Tibet and flows to delta on the Arabian Sea southeast of Karachi; cradle of the Indus Valley Civilization

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Indus River

Question 20: longest river on the American east coast that drains into the Atlantic Ocean; runs from New York state, through PA, MD, into Chesapeake Bay; Harrisburg, PA is on it

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Susquehanna River Question 21: largest man-made lake, by area, in the world; created by the construction of Ghana's Akosombo Dam across the Volta River

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Lake Volta Question 22: located along border between California and Nevada, west of Carson City; largest alpine lake in North America; second-deepest in US

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Lake Tahoe Question 23: flows from central Angola, through Namibia's Caprivi Strip, and into the Kalahari Desert of Botswana; rather than flowing into the sea, it terminates in a massive inland swamp known as the Okavango Delta

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Okavango River Question 24: generally flows to the east and southeast as it traverses the US states of Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas; its initial basin starts in the Western United States in Colorado; major tributary of the Mississippi

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Arkansas River Question 25: located in Egypt; nicknamed "highway to India"; connects the Mediterranean to the Red Sea;

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Suez Canal Question 26: largest river in Pacific Northwes; rises in Rocky Mountains of BC, Canada; flows into the U.S. state of Washington, forms border between Washington and Oregon before emptying into Pacific Ocean; home of Grand Coulee and Bonneville Dams

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Columbia River