Major Rivers of Europe: Volga, Danube, Rhine and Seine

Sixteen European rivers, from the Atlantic to the Urals. The Volga is the longest in Europe; the Danube crosses more countries than any other river; the Dnieper and the Don flow to the Black Sea basin, and the Ural to the Caspian. In the west, the Rhine, the Rhône, the Seine, the Loire and the Garonne; in the center, the Elbe, the Oder and the Vistula; in the south, the Po, the Ebro and the Tagus.

Rhine and Rhone differ by a single letter. Po is only two letters long.

Rivers of Europe and Major Continental Basins Vocabulary: 16 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 9 of the 16 read backwards. The longest words are Dnieper, Garonne and Vistula, with 7 letters each.

Danube: Europe's second-longest river, about 2,850 km, flowing from Germany to the Black Sea.
Dnieper: A long river that flows through Russia, Belarus and Ukraine to the Black Sea.
Don: A Russian river that flows into the Sea of Azov.
Ebro: The river with the greatest flow in Spain, ending in a delta on the Mediterranean.
Elbe: A river that flows from the Czech Republic through Germany to the North Sea at Hamburg.
Garonne: A river of southwestern France that flows through Toulouse and Bordeaux.
Loire: The longest river in France, lined with famous châteaux.
Oder: A river that forms much of the border between Germany and Poland.
Po: The longest river in Italy, flowing across the northern plain to the Adriatic.
Rhine: A great European river that flows from the Swiss Alps to the North Sea.
Rhone: A river that flows from a Swiss glacier through Lake Geneva and France to the Mediterranean.
Seine: The river of Paris, flowing to the English Channel.
Tagus: The Tagus, or Tajo, the longest river of the Iberian Peninsula, reaching the sea at Lisbon.
Ural: A river that flows from Russia's Ural Mountains through Kazakhstan to the Caspian Sea.
Vistula: The longest river in Poland, flowing through Kraków and Warsaw.
Volga: The longest river in Europe, about 3,530 km, flowing to the Caspian Sea.

How to Solve the Rivers of Europe and Major Continental Basins Word Search

"Rhine" runs down and "Rhone" runs upward; check the third letter. "Garonne", with its double N, lies on a diagonal, like "Don", "Oder" and "Po". "Vistula" runs down, and "Volga" reads normally across.

European Rivers Activities

Match each river to a city on its banks.
Trace the Danube through its ten countries.
Sort the rivers by the sea they flow into.