Ch 2 Rivers

Question 1

What is land created by silt deposits at the mouth of a river called?

Answer 1

delta

Question 2

What is a group of people with similar religious beliefs, customs, and languages called?

Answer 2

civilization

Question 2

What is a man-made lake created for storing water called?

Answer 2

reservoir

Question 3

What is the starting part of a river’s water called?

Answer 3

source

Question 3

What is this narrow space between two cliffs called?

Answer 3

gorge

Question 4

This dam in China is the biggest in the world?

Answer 4

Three Gorges Dam

Question 5

Which country is India?

Answer 5

c

Question 6

Where is Tibet?

Answer 6

b

Question 7

Which country is Pakistan?

Answer 7

a

Question 8

What do people from India call the Ganges River?

Answer 8

Mother Ganges

Question 9

These women bathe in the Ganges river because they believe that the water is _______.

Answer 9

holy