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Investigating rivers
QCA Unit 14

Activities for home - Graphs of Rivers

The chart below shows the length of some of the world's rivers.

  1. Make a graph showing the length of each river.

    River

    Length (km)

    Amazon

    6,500

    Amur

    4,400

    Mackenzie

    4,300

    Mississippi

    6,000

    Nile

    6,700

    Ob

    5,400

    Rhine

    1,300

    Thames

    350

    Yangtze*

    5,000

    Zaire

    4,700


    *Note: The Yangtze river is also called the Chang Jiang.

  2. Roughly how many times longer is the Nile than the Thames?

  3. Use an atlas to find these rivers.
    In which continents are the three longest rivers to be found?