Río Misisipi

High school (ages 12+)
Geography

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/ro-misisipi

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. How long is Río Misisipi?Approximately 2,320 miles (3,734 kilometers)
2. What is the location?Central United States, flowing through 10 states from Minnesota to Louisiana
3. What is the primary outlet?Gulf of Mexico
4. What is the Mississippi River?The Mississippi River is a very long river in America, the second-longest in North America. It starts at Lake Itasca in Minnesota and flows all the way to the Gulf of Mexico.
5. Where does the Mississippi River flow?It travels through 32 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, collecting water from a huge area that covers about 40% of the continental United States.

Fluvial System: A system of rivers and streams, including their drainage basins and associated landforms.
Drainage Basin: The area of land where all precipitation or surface water collects and drains into a common outlet, such as a river or ocean.
Hypoxic Zone: An area in a body of water where oxygen levels are too low to support most aquatic life.
Levee: An embankment built to prevent the overflow of a river.