Rivers of the United States: Colorado, Hudson, Ohio and Potomac

Eight famous American rivers. The Colorado carved the Grand Canyon; the Columbia and the Snake drain the Pacific Northwest; the Ohio is the biggest tributary of the Mississippi by volume; the Hudson meets the sea at New York City; the Potomac flows past Washington, D.C.; the Platte crosses the plains of Nebraska; and the Missouri, the longest river in the country, runs about 3,770 km from Montana to join the Mississippi just north of St. Louis.

Colorado and Columbia both start with CO. Colorado reads backwards and Potomac runs upward.

Rivers of the United States Vocabulary: 8 Words to Find

Words run across, up and down; 2 of the 8 read backwards. The longest words are Colorado, Columbia and Missouri, with 8 letters each.

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.
Hudson: A river of New York State that flows into the Atlantic at New York City.
Missouri: The longest river in the United States, about 3,770 km, a tributary of the Mississippi.
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.
Potomac: The river of Washington, D.C.
Snake: A river of the American Northwest that carved Hells Canyon.

How to Solve the Rivers of the United States Word Search

"Missouri" fills a whole column, running down, and has a double S; "Hudson" and "Platte", with its double T, run down too. "Colorado" reads backwards across a whole row, while "Columbia", with the only B, reads normally. "Potomac" is the only word that runs upward, and "Snake" has the only K.

US Rivers Geography Activities

Trace each river on a map of the United States.
Find the longest river in the list and follow it to the Mississippi.
Ask which of these rivers flow into the Pacific and which into the Atlantic.