AP Flashcards

7841142563	River Rhine	Located in europe, begins at Tomasse, a lake in the canton of Grabüenden in Switzerland, runs through Seitzerland, germany, and netherlands. Border between France and Germany.	0
7841142564	Amazon river	In South America, flows through Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Brazil, flows to coast of Brazil and empties in the Atlantic Ocean. Sources from Andes mountains.	1
7841142565	Yangtze River	In China (China's in Asia) located in the middle of china, while running through Tibet, Sichuan, chongqing, Hubei, Anahi. Runs from the west to east china and then flows into east china sea at Shanghai.	2
7841142566	Mississippi River	Flows entirely in the United States, rises in northern Minnesota at lake Itasca to Louisiana into Gulf of Mexico.	3
7841142567	Ganges river	In Asia, Flows across northern India towards Bangladesh. Source is located high in the Himalayan mountains, and it empties into the Bay of Bengal.	4
7841142568	Nile river	In Africa, it originates in Burundi, south of equator, and flows northward through northeastern Africa, eventually flowing through Egypt and finally draining into Mediterranean Sea.	5
7841142569	Congo river	Source is Lualaba river, in the altai mountains and flows southwest to the Atlantic Ocean, located in Africa.	6
7841142570	Mekong river	Journeys from the Tibetan plateau to the southeast, through Laos and Thailand to the flood plains of Cambodia and vietnam, then finally flows into South China Sea, in Asia	7
7841142571	The Artic, Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, and Southern (Antarctic) are all what 5 things?	major oceans	8
7841142572	Prime meridian	0 degrees longitude (Greenwich)	9
7841142573	Equator	0 degrees latitude	10
7841142574	Tropic of Cancer	northerly circle of latitude on Earth at which the Sun can be directly overhead	11
7841142575	Tropic of Capricorn	circle of latitude that contains the subsolar point on the December solstice. It is thus the southernmost latitude where the Sun can be directly overhead.	12