Chicago River
Q. What is a string of large cities called?
Megalopolis. A string of large cities that have grown together, like in the Northeast.
Table of Contents
- Q. What is a string of large cities called?
- Q. What river drains the entire interior plains and is the longest river in North America?
- Q. Which region is one of the most productive farming regions in the world due to the Mississippi River and its tributaries?
- Q. Do all rivers flow north to south?
- Q. Is there a river that flows uphill?
- Q. How did Romans make water flow uphill?
- Q. Does water ever run uphill?
- Q. Which river is the deepest in Africa?
- Q. What is the biggest river in East Africa?
- Q. What African river is one of the ten longest?
- Q. What is the difference between longest and largest river?
- Q. What is the largest creature in the world?
- Q. What river flows through Wuhan?
Q. What river drains the entire interior plains and is the longest river in North America?
Mississippi River
Q. Which region is one of the most productive farming regions in the world due to the Mississippi River and its tributaries?
The Midwest
Q. Do all rivers flow north to south?
THE FACTS: Unless the land it totally flat, rivers of water run downhill. A large percentage of the planet’s river flow in a southerly direction because the source (usually in the mountains) is to the north of the mouth.
Q. Is there a river that flows uphill?
This interesting illustration from the June 1921 issue of New Science and Invention demonstrates that the Mississippi River (or any river flowing toward the equator) actually flows uphill. The Earth is not a perfect sphere. It is higher at the equator than it is at the poles. …
Q. How did Romans make water flow uphill?
Aqueducts moved water through gravity alone, along a slight overall downward gradient within conduits of stone, brick, or concrete; the steeper the gradient, the faster the flow.
Q. Does water ever run uphill?
Water in a siphon can flow uphill too, as can a puddle of water if it’s moving up a dry paper towel dipped in it. Even more curiously, Antarctica has a river that flows uphill underneath one of its ice sheets.
Q. Which river is the deepest in Africa?
The Congo-Lualaba-Chambeshi River
Q. What is the biggest river in East Africa?
Rufiji River
Q. What African river is one of the ten longest?
Nile
Q. What is the difference between longest and largest river?
The River Nile is the longest river in the world. Officially, the shortesr river is the D River, Oregan, USA, which is just 37 metres long. The biggest river in the world, measured by the amount of water that flows down it, is the Amazon.
Q. What is the largest creature in the world?
Antarctic blue whale
Q. What river flows through Wuhan?
Yangtze rivers
