True or False: There Are Rivers On Other Planets?

About 71 per cent of the Earth's surface is covered with water, and the oceans hold about 96.5 per cent of all Earth's water cover. Water is also found in the form of water vapour, rivers, lakes, ice caps, glaciers, and underground. 

In this article, we dive deep into rivers. Let us start with one of the questions most asked. How many rivers are there on Earth? The answer is over three million, as per the United States Geological Survey.

Let us quickly revise: what is a river? A river is a large, natural, flowing body of water that moves downhill under gravity. A river usually begins at a high-elevation source and flows towards an ocean, sea, lake, or another river. A river system is also called a drainage basin.

From the world's longest river to the world's deepest river, this true or false quiz will test your geographical knowledge about rivers across the world and even in space.

Today, we have 10 true or false statements about global river geography, glaciers, lakes, tributaries, flow direction, and other fascinating facts about these water bodies in the world. 

True or False: There Are Rivers on Other Planets?

1. The place where a river ends is called a mouth. True or False?

True. There place where a river ends is called its mouth. Here the river drains into a lake, another river, or the ocean. Whereas, the point where a river starts is is called its source or headwaters. 

2. China is known as the 'land of rivers'. True or False?

False. Bangladesh is known as the 'land of rivers'. Bangladesh has the highest number of rivers, about 700.

3. The Ganges River is the longest river in the world. True or False?

False. The Nile River is the longest river in the world, stretching approximately 6,650 kilometers through northeastern Africa.

4. There are rivers on other planets. True or False?

True. Saturn's moon, Titan, has a river unlike those found on Earth. The river is composed of liquid methane.

5. The Roe River is known as the shortest river in the world. True or False?

True. The Roe River is the shortest river in the world. Only 201 feet in length, the river flows from Giant Springs to a bigger river called the Missouri River in the US.

6. The Amazon River is the deepest river in the world. True or False? 

False. The Congo River in Africa is the world's deepest river. Formerly known as the Zaire River, the Congo River's depth exceeds 720 feet in certain parts.

7. The Colorado River has created the Grand Canyon. True or False?

True. The Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon over the past 5 to 6 million years. The river acts as a massive erosive force along with other contributors such as wind, rain, and tributary erosion from the uplift of the Colorado Plateau.

8. The Mississippi River flows through 10 countries. True or False?

False. The Danube River flows through ten countries in Central and Eastern Europe. It covers ten countries namely Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, and Moldova.

9. The Three Gorges Dam, one of the world's largest hydropower projects, is located on the Amazon River. True or False?

False. The Three Gorges Dam, one of the world's largest hydropower projects (by installed capacity) is built on the Yangtze River (also known as Chang Jiang River).

10. There is a river of fiver colours in the world. True or False?

True. The Cano Cristales River in Colombia is often referred to as the 'River of Five Colours', due to its strikingly vibrant red, yellow, green, blue, and black colours.

How many facts did you get right about these rivers? Tell us in the comments.

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