just search for the to biggest rivers in America. use Goggle! The Mississippi and the Missouri are the two longest rivers, but the Mississippi, the Ohio, the Columbia and the Yukon rivers are the top four in terms of average discharge at the mouth.
Because of the high discharge of freshwater
Seal level is the ultimate base level for rivers that discharge into the Oceans; thus sea level is the base level for the Mississippi River.
Mississippi and Missouri Rivers.
The Mississippi-Missouri-Jefferson system is the fourth longest and the tenth largest river in the world. In the US the Missouri is longest, but the Mississippi has the largest discharge of water by far.
It is common knowledge that the Mississippi is the largest U.S. river, but what is the rank of other major U.S. rivers? Rivers are considered large on the basis of one or more of three characteristics: total length from source to mouth, area of basin (watershed) drained by the stream, and average rate of flow (discharge) at the mouth. The alphabetical list on the back of this sheet shows these characteristics of 32 rivers so as to include the 20 largest rivers in each of the three categories. Among the 32 rivers, 16 are tributary to other rivers on the list; the remaining rivers discharge directly into oceans, seas, gulfs, or bays.
The Missouri and Mississippi Rivers come together just north of St. Louis.
The major rivers in Mississippi are Mississippi River, Big Black River, Pearl River, and Yazoo River.
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The Missouri and the Ohio rivers are the two major rivers that merge into the Mississippi.
The Mississippi River separates Louisiana and Mississippi.
Rivers that are east of the Mississippi and flow into it are: Wisconsin River, Saint Croix, and Ohio.