North American Bodies of Water Trivia

1. By continental surface area, where does Lake Superior rank in freshwater lakes on the globe?

From Quiz A Superior Quiz

Answer: First

By its surface, not by volume, Lake Superior is the largest lake, covering 31,700 square miles. If the shoreline of the lake were pulled out in a straight line, it would extend from Duluth, Minnesota to the Bahamas Islands, approximately 2,725 miles. Shoreline is difficult to measure accurately as it changes and also includes several islands. The maximum length of the lake is about 350 miles, and its width 160 miles.

From Quiz A River Runs Through It in North America

Answer: Chicago

The Chicago River is a system of rivers augmented by canals with a combined length of 251 km (156 miles). It runs through the city of the same name. The Chicago River is the reason why Chicago became an important location, as the link between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi Valley.

From Quiz Lake Superior

Answer: Three

Lake Superior touches Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. It also crosses the border into Canada and touches on the province of Ontario. The largest river that flows into the lake is the Nipigon River, which is in Canada.

From Quiz The Great Great Lakes

Answer: 5

Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.

From Quiz Great Lakes Day

Answer: 20%

Scientists have estimated that there is a total of 100,036 cubic kilometres (62,159 cubic miles) of freshwater on Earth. The Great Lakes contain about 22,508 cubic kilometres (13,986 cubic miles). That is approximately 20% of the world's freshwater, or 22.5% to be more exact. That's a lot of water!

From Quiz A River Runs Through It in North America

Answer: 4

The four rivers in New York City are the Hudson River, the East River, the Harlem River and the Bronx River.

From Quiz That's Great...

Answer: Lake Superior

Lake Superior has the largest surface area (31,820 sq mi) and volume (2,900 cu mi) of all the Great Lakes. It also has the largest surface area of any freshwater lake in the world.

From Quiz The Great Great Lakes

Answer: Michigan

Thus making Lake Michigan the only one of the Great Lakes that lies wholly within the U.S.

From Quiz Great Lakes Day

Answer: Superior Ontario

As its name suggests, Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes. It has a surface area of 82,100 square km (31,699 square miles). It is also the first lake in the system when one considers the flow of the water from west to east. Lake Ontario is the last lake in the system when considering the flow from west to east. Its waters spill into the St. Lawrence River, then head to the Atlantic Ocean. Lake Ontario has a surface area of 18,960 square km (7,320 square miles).

From Quiz That's Great...

Answer: Lake Superior

From space, Lake Superior's shape has been said to resemble a wolf head. It contains more water than all the other Great Lakes combined.

From Quiz The Great Lakes System

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.

From Quiz The Great Lakes

Answer: Lake Michigan

They're part of the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore.

From Quiz A River Runs Through It in North America

Answer: Winnipeg, Manitoba

You'll find the Red, the Assiniboine, the La Salle and the Seine flowing through parts of Winnipeg, the capital of the Province of Manitoba. The La Salle and the Seine are tributaries of the Red, which flows north into Lake Winnipeg, while the Assiniboine, when it is frozen solid in winter, is the location of the longest outdoor skating rink in the world.

From Quiz Lake Superior

Answer: Highest Lake

Lake Superior was named "le lac supérieur" by the French in the seventeenth century. They called it that because it was higher than Lake Huron. In the Ojibwa language, Gitche Gumee is how the lake is known and means means "big water". It was also once known as Lac Tracy by the French.

From Quiz The Great Lakes

Answer: Lake Superior

They're part of Wisconsin.

From Quiz Great Lakes Day

Answer: More than 30 million

The Great Lakes touch Ontario in Canada and Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York in the United States. When an official count was taken in 2017, it was discovered that over 30 million people lived next to the Great Lakes in these states and Ontario. This was about 10% of the people who lived in the US, and about 30% of Canadians at that time.

From Quiz A Superior Quiz

Answer: 1335

The average depth is only about 485 feet, but there are much deeper regions. The average temperature is about 39 degrees F. The old expression "Superior doesn't give up its dead" refers to submerged bodies being too cold in the water for bacteria to grow on, so there is little or no bloating from decay and gasses, and the bodies sink rather than rise.

From Quiz A River Runs Through It in North America

Answer: 9

Rivers forming part of the Canada-US border are: Rainy River, Pigeon River, St Marys River, St Clair River, Detroit River, Niagara River, St Lawrence River, St John River and St Croix River.

From Quiz That's Great...

Answer: Lake Erie and Lake Ontario

Lake Ontario is the most eastern of the Great Lakes. It is the smallest by surface area, followed by Lake Erie.

From Quiz Lake Superior

Answer: Lake Huron

The St. Marys River connects the two lakes. Lake Huron is the second largest of the Great Lakes. It was named after the Huron people that lived there. Lake Huron has a surface area of 23,010 square miles.

From Quiz The Great Lakes

Answer: Ohio

Perry is famous for his saying, 'We have met the enemy and they are ours' during the Battle of Lake Erie on Sept. 10, 1813.

From Quiz Great Lakes Day

Answer: The Edmund Fitzgerald

The Great Lakes have been important shipping routes since the 17th century. Over the years, it is estimated that over 6,000 wrecks have occurred, with the loss of over 30,000 mariners. On November 10, 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald was caught in a storm in Lake Superior. The iron ore freighter sunk and the entire crew of 29 was lost. It was the last wreck of the 20th century. It was also the largest ship ever to sink in the Great Lakes at that time. Gordon Lightfoot wrote a song about the wreck entitled "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald".

From Quiz A Superior Quiz

Answer: 25 to 30 feet

The average underwater visibility recorded is about 25 feet, but there are some locations where it is possible to see 30 feet. There are photos taken of various wrecks on the bottom. The wreckage of the 420-foot ore carrier Cyprus found in 2007 was discovered 100 years after it sank in 460 feet of water. It was on only its second voyage, from Superior, Wisconsin to Buffalo, New York.

From Quiz A River Runs Through It in North America

Answer: St. John River

The Saint John River (aka Fleuve Saint-Jean in New Brunswick's other official language) is approximately 673 km (418 miles) long. It rises in the province of Quebec and passes through the U.S. state of Maine on its way to New Brunswick. It forms part of the Canada-United States border in two different places along its length.

From Quiz Lake Huron Quiz

Answer: November 9

The storm particularly ravaged Lake Huron. It sank ten ships and killed 235 seamen.

From Quiz The Great Lakes

Answer: Superior and Michigan

Wisconsin has 500 miles of shorefront on these lakes.

From Quiz Great Lakes Day

Answer: Lake Huron

Lake Huron is the second largest of the Great Lakes by surface area, next to Lake Superior, with a total area of 59,700 sq km (23,000 sq miles). It also has many islands. The Great Lakes have approximately 35,000 islands. Of those, 30,000 are in Lake Huron. When all of these shorelines add up, the total is 6,157 km (3,827 miles) for that Great Lake. Lake Superior has a shoreline of 4,385 km (2,726 miles), Lake Michigan has a shoreline of about 2,475 km (1,600 miles), Lake Erie has a shoreline of 1,402 km (871 miles), and Lake Ontario has a shoreline of 1,146 km (712 miles).

From Quiz A Superior Quiz

Answer: 80

Fish tails/tales vary, but about 80 types have been recorded living in the lake at the beginning of the 21st century. This figure will keep changing as dominant or invasive species sometimes take over areas, but the lake is probably large enough for all to survive.

From Quiz A River Runs Through It in North America

Answer: Rio Bravo

The longest river in Mexico is the Rio Bravo (called the Río Grande in the United States), which forms the natural boundary between Texas and Mexico for about 2092 km (about 1300 miles).

From Quiz Lake Huron Quiz

Answer: Le Griffon

Sieur de la Salle commanded that ship. It was launched in 1679.

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