The Nile River Question Preview (ID: 23274)
Chapter 19.
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Allows for year round watering of crops
a) hydroelectric potential
b) river basin
c) perennial irrigation
d) sprinkler systems
The movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back again.
a) River basin
b) water cycle
c) perennial irrigation
d) precipitation
Using water to generate electricity.
a) Water cycle
b) flash floods
c) hydroelectric potential
d) perennial irrigation
The area drained by a river and its tributaries.
a) flood zone
b) retention pond
c) river basin
d) flood watch
Source of the Blue Nile
a) Lake Victoria
b) Blue River
c) Lake Tana
d) Lake Tangayika
Process where liquid turns into vapor or gas.
a) precipitation
b) condensation
c) evaporation
d) infiltration
Process where vapor or gas turns into liquid.
a) evaporation
b) precipitation
c) condensation
d) runoff
Movement of water from the surface into the soil.
a) runoff
b) infiltration
c) condensation
d) precipitation
Water that is not absorbed into the soil and flows into rivers, streams, lakes, etc.
a) runoff
b) infiltration
c) evaporation
d) condensation
Moisture in the atmosphere.
a) Water vapor
b) Condensation
c) precipitation
d) atmosphere
The source of the White Nile
a) Lake Tana
b) Lake Superior
c) Lake Victoria
d) The Red Sea
Where two or more streams or rivers meet at one place.
a) Intersection
b) meeting place
c) confluence
d) cataracts
Where the Blue and White Nile meet.
a) Cairo, Egypt
b) Khartoum, Sudan
c) Egypt
d) Ethiopia
A dry riverbed that is filled by a sudden rainstorm.
a) wadi
b) cataract
c) reservoir
d) lake
Rapids or low waterfalls where the river drops over rock outcroppings.
a) wadis
b) extreme wadis
c) cataracts
d) confluences
The man made structure that created Lake Nasser.
a) Egyptian reservoir
b) Hoover Dam
c) Nasser wall
d) Aswan High Dam
A triangle shaped deposit of sand and sediment that occurs where a river flows into an ocean.
a) flood plain
b) delta
c) wadi
d) tributary
A climate that is hot all year with very little rainfall.
a) tropical
b) arid
c) hot
d) semi arid
The flat area around a river that is covered with sediment as a result of frequent flooding.
a) delta
b) flood plain
c) riverbed
d) wadi
The Nile flows from _______ to _________?
a) East, West
b) South, North
c) North, South
d) up, down
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