[DOC] [TLE] Yangtze River | river, China | Britannica.com [PAR] Longest river in both China and Asia and the third longest river in the world, with 
... The Huang He basin and the Yangtze River basin and their drainage networks. 
... In narrower gorges the water width decreases by almost half, but the depth .... 
widens markedly, the course of its stream wandering in the form of a large loop. [DOC] [TLE] Ganges River | river, Asia | Britannica.com [PAR] May 1, 2015 ... Ganges River, Hindi Ganga, great river of the plains of the northern Indian 
subcontinent. ... into the Bay of Bengal, it drains one-fourth of the territory of India, 
and its basin ... The greater part of the Indo-Gangetic Plain, across which it flows, 
.... high Himalayas, settling in large numbers in water-covered areas. [DOC] [TLE] Huang He | river, China | Britannica.com [PAR] Jan 21, 2016 ... The Huang He basin and the Yangtze River basin and their ... In its upper 
reaches the river crosses two large bodies of water, .... The plain has been 
densely inhabited for millennia and long has been one of China's principal 
agricultural ... In general, however, the plain is an area of great floods because 
the... [DOC] [TLE] Yangtze - Wikipedia [PAR] The Yangtze River known in China as the Chng Jing or the Yngz Jing ( 
About this sound listen), is the longest river in Asia and the third-longest in the 
world. The river is the longest in the world to flow entirely within one country. ... 
For thousands of years, the river has been used for water, irrigation, sanitation,... [DOC] [TLE] Early River Valley Civilizations, 3500 BC450 BC - Community Unit ... [PAR] Geography What rivers helped sustain the four river valley civilizations? Projects 
.... These projects also created a need for laws to settle disputes over how land ... 
The Sumerians stand out in history as one of the first groups of people to form a 
...... The Indus and Ganges and the lands they water make up a large area that. [DOC] [TLE] river - National Geographic Society [PAR] Mar 14, 2011 ... Rivers are found on every continent and on nearly every kind of land. ... Hindus 
have always believed that the water of the Ganges River has purifying powers. ... 
One of the most important things they do is carry large quantities of water from ... 
Because of this, a river deposits very fertile soil on its flood plain. [DOC] [TLE] Rivers - ASEM Water [PAR] There are three types of rivers: perennial, intermittent, and occasional. ... Since 
ancient times, rivers have been regarded as the source of all life and the cradle ... 
in lakes and swamps of the Valdai Hills in the west of the Eastern Europe plain, ... 
The Volga Basin covers two fifths of the territory of European part of Russia, with
... [DOC] [TLE] The World's Largest Floods, Past and Present - USGS Publications ... [PAR] Cover: A man rows past houses flooded by the Yangtze River in Yueyang, .... of 
water spilling out of the Great Basin and into the Snake River drainage . ... Nearly 
all of the largest floods caused by rainfall have occurred in basins south of 
latitude ... variety of mechanisms that cause floods and how the types and 
magnitudes... [DOC] [TLE] Rivers with Himalayan origins are susceptible to atmospheric warming [PAR] Sep 4, 2013 ... Climate Change and Its Impact on our World's Major Rivers  Part 1: The ... and 
feed the Ganges, Indus, Mekong, Yangtze, Huang He (Yellow), ... The main river 
originates from the melt-water of the Gangotri Glacier in the ... It rises from the 
glaciers of the Tibetan plateau with its basin covering 20% of China. [DOC] [TLE] River fisheries [PAR] Such rivers tend to have black waters with low pH, low conductivity and ionic 
content, ... This means that within any one river, there is typically a succession of 
types of ..... The floodplain is itself divided into two components: (i) the plain itself 
which is ... the highest floods tend to

Question: This type of "plain" is covered by water when a river overflows; the Ganges & Yangtze have big ones
Answer: a floodplain