Lake Superior Trivia Quiz

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.

Answer: Isle Royale

Isle Royale is part of the state of Michigan. It is 45 miles long and nine miles wide. It is also the second largest island in all of the Great Lakes and the third largest in the contiguous U.S.

Answer: No

Lake Superior is the largest by surface area, but not by volume. It has a surface area of 31,700 square miles. The lake has about 3,000,000,000,000,000 gallons of water. Lake Baikal is the largest freshwater lake in the world by volume.

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.

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.

Answer: It contains about 25 percent of all of the world's freshwater.

It really only contains about 10 percent of the world's freshwater. The deepest point in the lake is about 40 miles north of Munising, Michigan. The average underwater visibility of the lake is 27 feet, which makes it cleaner and clearer than the other lakes.

Answer: glaciers

About 10,000 years ago the Great Lakes were formed by retreating glaciers. This makes the lake only 10,000 years old, which is relatively young. During the MidContinent Rift glaciers formed about 1.2 billion years ago and gradually retreated to the point where the lakes formed.

Source: "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_superior#History", "http://www.seagrant.umn.edu/superior/facts", and "http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/superior/superiorfacts.html".

Answer: October and November

The months considered the calmest are June and July. The highest recorded wave height on the lake is 31 feet. The lake has enough water to flood all of North and South America to a depth of one foot.

Answer: True

The lake has less dissolved nutrients, which means it is ultra-oligotrophic. Its fishery produces only about 10 percent of what Lake Michigan does annually. The fishery has begun to improve, though. There are 89 species of fish in the lake, 31 of which are native and 21 of which are not native.

Answer: Yes

Yes, on occasion is does completely freeze over but usually only 40-90 per cent of the surface area. With the advent of global warming the depth and the time of the freeze are receding. According to a study by professors at the University of Minnesota there is a complete freeze about every 20 years.