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Does the Gulf Stream move about the same amount of water as the Mississippi River?
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The Mississippi River and the Amazon River move water at roughly 0.6 million cubic meters per second. By comparison, the Gulf Stream, as it flows and forms off of Florida, moves at approximately 30 million cubic meters per second.
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What is a tributary?
A tributary is a small stream or body of water that flows into a larger body of water. Note that a tributary could also be a river, for example, the Missouri and Ohio rivers flow into the Mississippi river.a tributary (correct spelling) is basically a smaller river that flows into a larger river.
What is a tributary and how do they come to be?
A tributary is a small stream of water that feeds into a larger stream or into a lake. So the Ohio River is a tributary of the Mississippi River, the Little Miami River is a tributary of the Ohio River, and the Genessee River is a tributary of Lake Ontario.
A stream or other body of water where a river begins is called the rivers?
The source of river is known as its headwaters. In the example of the Mississippi River, its headwaters is Lake Itasca in Minnesota.
Is the Mississippi river salt water or fresh water?
The great Mississippi river is made entirely of fresh water.
What major body of water did the new states Kentucky and Tennessee givethe us direct access to for the first time?
the Mississippi river
On what bodies of water are the cities of st. Louis and nauvoo located?
Mississippi river
What is a natural stream of water larger than a creek and emptying intp an ocean lake or river?
There are two answers to this question based upon the way it is written. A. A large natural stream of water emptying into a large "body" is called a river; and B. A large natural stream of water emptying into a larger body can be called a tributary. Normally this is a smaller river than the "large body". Thus the Missouri River is a tributary of the Mississippi River.
Which body of water flows along the western side of the state of Mississippi?
Mississippi is bordered by the Mississippi River to the west.
Where does Mississippi river water come from?
The Mississippi River's watershed area, and rainfall.
Mississippi river body of ater?
what body of water does the Mississippi river flow into
What is a head water?
A headwater is the place from which the water in the river or stream originates. It is also called the source of the river or stream
What river carries water from the Missouri river and the Ohio river and empties into the gulf of Mexico?
Mississippi river
