Fractured Lakes of North America Quiz

Answer: Pontchartrain

Lake Pontchartrain, located in the state of Louisiana, is the second largest salt-water lake in the United States. When Hurricane Katrina made landfall near the city of New Orleans, Lake Pontchartrain's levee system broke apart, causing 80% of New Orleans to become flooded.

Answer: Okeechobee

Lake Okeechobee, located in the state of Florida, is the fourth largest lake entirely within the United States. The lake is known for its diverse wildlife that includes alligators, otters, sandhill cranes, whooping cranes, and bald eagles.

Answer: Salton Sea

The Salton Sea, located in the Sonoran Desert, is the largest lake in California. In the year 1905, the Colorado River flooded areas of the Imperial Valley. To control the flooding, workers formed the lake known as the Salton Sea.

Answer: Seneca

Seneca Lake, one of the Finger Lakes of the state of New York, is the second deepest lake in the United States. Seneca Lake, dubbed the "Lake Trout Capital of the World", takes its name from the Native American nation of the same name.

Answer: Crater

Crater Lake, located in the state of Oregon, is the deepest lake in the United States. The lake itself was created by the caldera that formed after the volcano Mount Mazama erupted. The lake, protected by its National Park status, is known for its breathtaking views, deep blue water, and Wizard Island which lies in its waters.

Answer: Champlain

Lake Champlain, located within parts of Vermont, New York, and Quebec, is the sixth largest freshwater lake in the United States. The lake's location between the St. Lawrence and Hudson Valleys provided a strategic location for the colonists in the American Revolution. Fort Ticonderoga lies on the banks of Lake Champlain.

Answer: Great Bear

The Great Bear Lake, located in the Northwest Territories of Canada, is the fourth largest lake in North America. The only community along Great Bear Lake is Deline which has a population of only 650.

Answer: Nicaragua

Lake Nicaragua is the tenth largest freshwater lake in the world. The lake contains Ometepe which is the largest freshwater island in the world and Lake Nicaragua contains the only freshwater sharks in the world.

Answer: Chapultepec

The area near Lake Chapultepec, located within modern-day Mexico City, was settled by the Aztecs in the year 1248 C.E. Chapultepec Park, of which the lake is a part, was the site of an 1833 battle of the Mexican American War and it contains Mexico's National Museum of History.

Answer: Reindeer

Reindeer Lake, the ninth largest lake in Canada, lies on the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba. A legend surrounding the lake's name is that a monster resides in the lake that eats reindeer as they fall through the ice.

Answer: Izabal

Lake Izabal, locally referred to as Lago de Izabal, is connected to the Caribbean Sea by the Rio Dulce. The lake's main tourist attraction, the "Castillo de San Felipe de Lara", was a Spanish fortress built in 1595.

Answer: Horseshoe

Horseshoe Lake is the second largest natural lake in the state of Illinois. The lake, named for its distinct shape, borders the towns of Madison and Granite City.

Answer: Powell

Lake Powell is a man-made lake on the Colorado River between the states of Arizona and Utah. The lake was formed with the creation of the Glen Canyon Dam. The world's largest natural bridge, Rainbow Bridge, can be reached by boat from Lake Powell.

Answer: Michigan

Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes completely located within the United States. Lake Michigan is the largest lake entirely within one country and it is the fifth largest lake in the world. The Mackinac Bridge divides Lake Michigan from Lake Huron.

Answer: Ontario

Lake Ontario is both the smallest (it is still the 14th largest lake in the world) of the Great Lakes in surface area and the furthest east. The St. Lawrence River is the lake's primary outlet while the Niagara River is its primary inlet.