Rivers of North America: Mississippi, Missouri and Mackenzie

The great rivers of the continent. The Mississippi gathers the Missouri, the Ohio, the Arkansas, the Platte, the Tennessee and the Red. The Mackenzie flows to the Arctic, the Yukon to the Bering Sea, and the Saskatchewan and the Nelson to Hudson Bay. In the west, the Colorado, the Columbia, the Snake and the Fraser reach the Pacific, and the Rio Grande runs along the border with Mexico.

Tennessee has three doubles: NN, SS and EE. Mississippi and Missouri both start with MI.

Rivers of North America and Major Basins Vocabulary: 16 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down, and diagonally; 9 of the 16 read backwards. The longest word is Saskatchewan, with 12 letters.

Arkansas: A 2,360 km river that flows from the Colorado Rockies to the Mississippi.
Colorado: A 2,330 km river of the American Southwest that carved the Grand Canyon.
Columbia: The largest river of the Pacific Northwest, flowing from Canada into the United States.
Fraser: The longest river in British Columbia, Canada, rich in salmon.
Mackenzie: The longest river system in Canada, flowing north to the Arctic Ocean.
Mississippi: The second-longest river in the United States, about 3,730 km, flowing to the Gulf of Mexico.
Missouri: The longest river in the United States, about 3,770 km, a tributary of the Mississippi.
Nelson: A Canadian river that carries water from Lake Winnipeg to Hudson Bay.
Ohio: A river of the eastern United States, the largest tributary of the Mississippi by volume.
Platte: A wide, shallow river of Nebraska, followed by the Oregon Trail.
Red: The name of two North American rivers: one on the Texas–Oklahoma border, one flowing north into Canada.
Rio Grande: A river that forms much of the border between the United States and Mexico.
Saskatchewan: A river of the Canadian Prairies that flows into Lake Winnipeg.
Snake: A river of the American Northwest that carved Hells Canyon.
Tennessee: A river of the southeastern United States, dammed by the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Yukon: A river that flows from Canada across Alaska to the Bering Sea.

How to Solve the Rivers of North America and Major Basins Word Search

"Saskatchewan" is the longest word, with the only W, and runs down, like "Mississippi" and "Mackenzie". "Rio grande" reads backwards with its space dropped, like "Columbia" and "Fraser". "Nelson", "Platte", "Red" and "Yukon" are diagonal.

North American Rivers Activities

Sort the rivers by the ocean or bay they reach.
Trace the Mississippi and its tributaries.
Find which rivers cross the Canada–US border.