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...JUST FOR FUN!

Have a go at these three activities about rivers!

Activity A: A River Quiz
You'll need to use some maps or atlases to find the answers to some of these questions. Collect the first letters of each answer; unscramble them to find a country in Africa mentioned in this edition's 'Focus On' section!
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1. Very large seas are known as ______

2. The world's largest river is the _____

3. One way of crossing a river is by building a _____

4. Another name for a competition - what this is! ____

5. USA's longest river is the ____

6. The only Great Lake totally within the USA is Lake ____

7. People in Tanzania, Kenya and ____ depend upon fish from Lake Victoria

8. The second longest river in Africa is the ____

9. The Volga river is in the continent of ___

10. Burma's longest river is the ____

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Activity B
harry Have a go at this quiz! All the answers can be found somewhere on this edition of Global Eye Primary. You can either see how much you can remember, or go back to the web pages to search out the answers! For each question, choose one of the three answers. You will score 5 points for every correct answer. When you have answered all the questions, click on the 'get my score' button at the end and see how you did!
Question
1. How much of our planet is made up of water:

2. Of all this water, how much is not in the seas and rivers:

3. If we represented all the water making up a bottleful, how much fresh water would we have for drinking:

4. Which is the longest river in the world:

5. The Volga River is in the continent of:

6. The size of the drainage basin of the Amazon is:
7. The source of the Amazon is in which mountains:
8. The mouth of the Amazon forms a large:
9. The Amazon flows into which ocean:
10. Bangladesh shares its borders with Burma and:
Press the button on the right to see your score:-

HOW DID YOU DO? CHECK YOUR RATING BELOW:

Score Comment
45 - 50 Champion! Have you been doing some extra research?
30 - 40 Great! You have a good memory!
20 - 30 Did you miss out some pages?
Less than 15 Aaargh! You better read the pages again!

Activity C

Starting from the bold, underlined letter, move up or down or sideways (but NOT diagonally) to find the path through 10 rivers. To get you started, the first river is in South America and features in this edition of Global Eye Primary!
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