Bodies of Water: Where am I? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Pacific Ocean

Bordering four of the world's seven continents, the Pacific Ocean spans some sixty-three million square miles and covers nearly one-third of the Earth. It lies between the eastern coast of Asia and the western coasts of North and South America, and extends southward to surround Australia and New Zealand, and north to the Arctic Ocean.

Answer: Bight of Benin

A "bight" is defined as a small, concave bend in a coastline or river. Basically, a bight is shallower and not as deep as a true bay.
The Bight of Benin lies in the northern part of the larger Gulf of Guinea and borders the countries of Benin and Togo. It is some 400 miles wide and almost 200 miles long.

Answer: Sea of Marmara

Lying between the southeastern coast of Europe and the western coast of the Anatolian Peninsula in Asia, the Sea of Marmara connects the Black Sea with the Mediterranean Sea via the Bosporus Strait in the north and the Dardanelles to the south. This body of water lies completely within the country of Turkey.

Answer: Nile River

The Nile is formed by the meeting of the White Nile, whose source is Lake Victoria, divided between Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and the Blue Nile, which originates in Lake Tana in Ethiopia. The rivers meet near Khartoum in Sudan. The Nile is over 4,100 miles long and flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The ancient Egyptian civilization grew up along the Nile.

Answer: Straits of Mackinac

Five miles wide, the Straits of Mackinac divides the American state of Michigan into the Upper and Lower Peninsulas. The straits are spanned by the Mackinac Bridge, which opened in 1957.

Answer: Hudson Bay

At some 470,000 miles of surface area, Hudson Bay lies in Northern Canada and connects through straits to both the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans. It was named for the 17th century English explorer Henry Hudson, who was set adrift in the bay by his mutinous crew in 1611.

Answer: Lake Balaton

Running in a mostly east-west direction, Lake Balaton is 48 miles long and almost 9 miles wide. The northern shore is known for winemaking, while the southern end of the lake has been a tourist destination since the 19th century.

Answer: Persian Gulf

Also called the Arabian Gulf, the Persian Gulf is connected to the Gulf of Oman by the Strait of Hormuz on the eastern side. The gulf is over 600 miles long and covers an area of some 97,000 square miles. The countries bordering the Persian Gulf hold about 70% of the world's crude oil reserves, making the Persian Gulf a major shipping route for this vital commodity.

Answer: Coral Sea

Bordering the Solomon Islands, French Polynesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia, the Coral Sea has a surface area of some 1.85 million square miles. Along the coast of the Australian state of Queensland lies the Great Barrier Reef, the largest coral reef in the world.

Answer: Amazon River

The mighty Amazon River in South America has by far the largest volume of water and is second only to the Nile River in length, although that statistic is sometimes disputed when tributaries of the two rivers are included. The Amazon is officially 2,330 miles long, as opposed to the Nile River's official length of 4,100 miles.