Rivers Vocabulary

3. noun meaning how water (and wind and ice) can cut through the land, creating valleys, gorges, canyons ( nd floods)
4. A small river with less water flowing in it
9. When water turns from liquid into gas
11. The river which flows through London
12. The river we cross when we walk to church, which has its mouth in Littlehampton
14. Where a river starts - which may be a spring or a melting glacier or a pond or lake
15. North America's longest river, which joins with the Missouri in St Louis and flows into the Gulf of Mexico
17. People use rivers to _______ things on boats
18. The largest ocean, found between the Americas and Asia
19. Large settlements built alongside rivers such as London on the River Thames and Paris on the River Seine
21. Africa's greatest river, at the heart of the Ancient Egyptian civilization
24. Using rivers to supply water for growing crops
25. Barriers built across rivers which stop or slow the flow to store drinking water in reservoirs or to create hydroelectric energy ( and can be built by beavers )

1. When a river breaks its banks
2. One of the seven areas of land in the world, such as Antarctica, Oceania or Africa
5. The water ______ explains who water changes form and moves around Earth's seas, rivers, atmosphere etc.
6. A wide flat area at the mouth of a river where the tide meets with the river and which is often marshy or has mudflats at low tide
7. When water vapour turns into liquid
8. Where a river flows into the sea or a lake
10. verb to explain who rivers bend and twist on their journey
13. Rain, snow, sleet and hail
16. One of the forms of precipitation which is like wet snow
20. The ice cap at the north pole - at the top of the northern hemisphere
22. People use rivers for fun ______ activities such as swimming and jetskiing
23. The huge river in South America with its source in the Andes and which flows through northern Brazil to its mouth in the Atlantic