Watersheds and Drainage Basins

Geography · 10 questions

Ten multiple-choice questions about drainage divides, river basins, and closed-basin drainage geography.

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1. Which major divide separates North American drainage to the Pacific from drainage to the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico?

   1. Laurentian Divide
   2. Continental Divide of the Americas
   3. Great Basin Divide
   4. Eastern Continental Divide
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   B) Continental Divide of the Americas

2. Which divide separates the Hudson Bay basin from the Mississippi basin?

   1. Great Basin Divide
   2. Eastern Continental Divide
   3. Continental Divide of the Americas
   4. Laurentian Divide
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   D) Laurentian Divide

3. Which major river flows into the Caspian Sea, which has no natural outlet to the ocean?

   1. Don River
   2. Danube River
   3. Dnieper River
   4. Volga River
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   D) Volga River

4. Which dark-water tributary joins the Amazon near Manaus?

   1. Rio Negro
   2. Madeira River
   3. Tapajós River
   4. Xingu River
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   A) Rio Negro

5. In which closed basin do the waters of the Okavango River end?

   1. Orange Basin
   2. Kalahari Basin
   3. Zambezi Basin
   4. Niger Basin
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   B) Kalahari Basin

6. Which of these rivers flows into the Black Sea?

   1. Loire River
   2. Rhine River
   3. Danube River
   4. Elbe River
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   C) Danube River

7. The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal artificially connects the Great Lakes to which river basin?

   1. Mississippi River basin
   2. Hudson Bay basin
   3. Atlantic Coastal basin
   4. Saint Lawrence basin
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   A) Mississippi River basin

8. Which river carries water out of Lake Baikal and joins the Yenisei system?

   1. Lena River
   2. Ob River
   3. Angara River
   4. Amur River
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   C) Angara River

9. Which river flows out of Lake Winnipeg and into Hudson Bay?

   1. Mackenzie River
   2. Nelson River
   3. Columbia River
   4. Saint Lawrence River
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   B) Nelson River

10. Which river carries the waters of the Congo Basin across central Africa to the Atlantic Ocean?

    1. Niger River
    2. Zambezi River
    3. Nile River
    4. Congo River
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    D) Congo River