Important rivers of North America : Mississippi, Missouri, Colorado, St. Lawrence, Mackenzie, Hudson, Snake, Tennessee, etc.
Mississippi:
Flows from North to South
Important tributary Missouri river.
Most imp river system of USA
Imp cities: St. Pittsburg, Memphis, St. Louis
Irrigation – Prairie region
Petroleum at mouth
Colorado:
West flowing river
cutting the Colorado Plateau –Grand canyon
Flows throughSonoran desert, Painted desert
hoover dam – Lake mead
Las Vegas located near lakeMead.
St. Lawrence:
Flows fromsouth-west to North-east.
Originate from lake Ontario and drain into Atlantic Ocean.
Busiest inland waterways.
Mackenzie:
Flows Northward.
Originate from great slave lake and drains into ArcticOcean
It flows through Boreal forests of Canada.
Hudson river
Flows from north to south
Originate in Appalachian mountains
It flows through major cities like New York and New Jersey.
Provides an important waterway
