What is the Mississippi River?

Answer 1

It is the second longest river in the United States, with a length of 2,340 miles. Its source in Lake Itasca in Minnesota and its mouth in the Gulf of Mexico.

1. The Mississippi River landing in Grand Rapids was the furthermost stopping point for the early steamships on the river. At Grand Rapids the river became too shallow for the ships to continue northward and thus Grand Rapids became the entertainment, trading, and merchant shopping hub to the northern region.

2. The river has bays which hold bass and panfish, and has several bridges that provide opportunities to fish underneath from shore.

3. At its headwaters, the Mississippi is less than 3 feet deep 4. The Mississippi River Basin or Watershed drains 41% of continental United States. 5. The Mississippi River and its floodplain are home to a diverse population of living things: at least 260 species of fishes, 25% of all fish species in North America. Forty percent of the nation's migratory waterfowl use the river corridor during their Spring and Fall migration. Sixty percent of all North American birds (326 species) use the Mississippi River Basin as their migratory flyway.

1. Mississippi river is the longest and widest river found in north america.

2. There are hundreds of different fish species including giant alligator gars in the south and some bull sharks!

3. The missouri river and the ohio river empties into the mississippi river.

4. The widest point reaches to 2 miles wide.

5. 60 percent of all migratory birds depend on mississippi river for migration

6. At least 145 different species of creatures are found in and along the mississippi river.

7. The mississippi river is a major source of irrigation and trade along Louisiana.

8. The mississippi river's maximum depth is 200 ft, but is usually 75 ft deep on average.

9. Alligators and even some american crocodiles have been found at banks of Mississippi river!

10. The mississppi river beginning is just a narrow creek.

Answer 2

A few Mississippi river facts:

• The Mississippi River flows south from Lake Itasca, in Northern Minnesota, to the Gulf of Mexico, in Louisiana.
• The Mississippi River, at 740 miles in length, is the third longest river in North America.
• The Mississippi River is a watershed for over 1.2 million square miles.
• The Mighty Mississippi incorporates tributary rivers from 32 states and two Canadian provinces.
• The Mississippi and its tributaries drain almost all the plains between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains. Its drainage basin is the third largest in the world, exceeded in size only by the watersheds of the Amazon and Congo Rivers.
• The Mississippi River was discovered by De Soto in 1541.
• In its lower section the Mississippi is subject to disastrous flooding. Efforts at containing the river have been especially vigorous since a catastrophic flood in 1927, when about 67,300 sq km (26,000 sq mi) of land were inundated and the river rose 17 m (57 ft) at Cairo. The federal government has built artificial levees 5-7 m (15-24 ft) high and dredged waterways that release the floodwater laterally to the Gulf of Mexico.

Answer 3

A river is a natural stream of fresh water, larger than a brook or a creek. A river flows towards another river, an ocean, a lake or an other large body of water.

Answer 4

It has the 4th clearest drinking water in the whole world. It's in Mississippi!

MORE THAN 500 people pass this river (like on their way to work or something) every hour!

Answer 5

A river in U.S.A.