Rivers
What is the longest river in the world?
The Nile River is 4,145 miles long. It flows from the heart of Africa below the
Equator to Egypt and empties into the Mediterranean Sea.
What is the longest river system in the US?
The Mississippi-Missouri system. It is 3,710 miles long.
What river is considered the mightiest?
The Amazon River in Brazil. Although the second longest river at 4,007 miles,
it carries half of all the river water in the world.
What river includes the world's highest waterfall?
Angel Falls on the Churún River in Venezuela is 3,212 feet high.
What waterfall carries the most water?
Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River on the Zambia-Zimbabwe border.
Lakes
What is the deepest lake in the world?
Lake Baikal, in Russia, is the oldest and deepest lake. It's deepest point
is 5,134 feet deep. At 5,500 square miles, it contains more water than the
five Great Lakes on the US/Canada border combined.
What is the largest fresh water lake?
Lake Superior between the US and Canada. It covers 31,700 square miles.
Mountains
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Although Mt. Everest reaches a higher altitude of
29,028 feet above sea level, Mauna Kea rises 33,476 feet from the sea floor.
Only the top 13,796 is visible above the water.
What mountain has the highest rise from base to summit?
Mt. McKinley in Alaska. It rises almost 20,000 feet from the base
to the summit. Mt. Everest begins from a plateau with a rise of
17,000 feet.
Deserts
What is the hottest spot in the world?
Al Aziziyah, Libya. Temperatures of 136 F have been recorded.
What continent has the coldest desert?
Antartica. At Vostok, Antartica, a low of -129 F has been recorded and
the average summer temperataure is -58 F.
What is the driest desert in the world?
Atacama Desert in Chile. No rain has fallen there in the last 400 years.
