The Great Lakes System Trivia Quiz

Answer: Lake Superior

The Great Lakes are, in order of surface area; Lake Superior, Lake Huron,
Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, and Lake Ontario.

Answer: Lake Erie

Lake Erie, with an average depth of 62 feet (19 m) and a maximum depth of 210 feet (64 m) is by far the shallowest of the five Great Lakes.

Answer: 20%

The Great Lakes contain 5,472 cubic miles (22,812 km³)or 6 quadrillion U.S. gallons (22.81 quadrillion litres) of fresh water. This is about 1/5 of the entire world supply.

Answer: Caledonian Canal

The Caledonian Canal is located in Scotland and connects the North Sea with the Irish Sea. The Erie Canal, completed in 1819, connected Lake Erie with the Hudson Rive and the saltwater port of New York City. The Saint Lawrence Seaway was completed in 1959 and connects the navigable headwaters of the St. Lawrence River east of Montreal to Lake Ontario near Kingston, Ontario.

The Great Lakes Waterway includes the Welland Canal, bypassing Niagara Falls between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie, and the Soo Locks, bypassing the rapids of the St. Marys River between Lake Superior and Lake Huron at Sault Sainte Marie.

Answer: True

Lake effect snow is caused by cold arctic winds move across the expanses of warmer lake surface picking up water vapor which freezes and is deposited on the shores as snow. Syracuse, Cleveland, and Erie also receive this type of snow.

Answer: Lake Michigan

It it believed that the word "Michigan" was comes from the Ojibwa Indian word "mishigami", meaning "great water."

Answer: Lake Superior

Lake Superior has an average depth is 483 feet (147 m) with a maximum depth of 1,333 feet (406 m). Lake Superior contains 2,900 cu mi (12,100 km³) of water. There is enough water in Lake Superior to cover the entire land mass of North and South America with a 12 inches (30 cm) of water.

Answer: Lake St. Clair

Lake St. Clair is located about 6 miles NE of Detroit between the St. Clair River, which drains Lake Huron, and the Detroit River, which feeds into Lake Erie. It has an average depth of about 10 feet (3 m), and a maximum natural depth of 21 feet (6.4 m) (a modern 27 feet (8.2 m) navigation channel has been dredged for freighter passage). Lake Nipissing is located in northern Ontario and drains into Lake Huron via the French River. Lake Winnebago is located in Wisconsin and drains into Lake Michigan via the Fox River. Lake Champlain is located between New York state and Vermont and drains into the St. Lawrence River via the Richelieu River and is not part of the direct Great Lakes system.

Answer: Lake Superior

The ship went down in Canadian waters about 17 miles (15 nm or 27 km) west of the entrance to Whitefish Bay at the eastern end of Lake Superior. All 29 of her crew perished. She currently rests on the bottom in 530 feet (162 m) of water. The tragedy was the subject of the 1976 hit song "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot.

Answer: Lake Huron

The 1996 Lake Huron cyclone, also called Hurricane Huron, formed over the lake on September 11, 1996. Satellite images revealed that it had a resemblance of a tropical hurricane, complete with an 18 mile (30 km) wide eye.