Water: It is Everywhere Trivia Quiz

Answer: Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea is the largest lake in the world with an area of 371,000 kmē and a water volume of 18,800 cu mi. It is sometimes referred to as a fully-fledged sea. However, it is in an endorheic basin which means it has no outflows. It is situated between Asia and Europe.
Lake Superior is the largest of the Great Lakes with an area of just over 82,000 kmē. Lake Michigan is the largest lake within one country (58,000 kmē) being the USA. Lake Vostok is the largest lake in Antarctica being 15,680 kmē.

Answer: Lake Kariba (Zimbabwe)

Lake Kariba (Zimbabwe) is filled by the Zambesi River and was completed in 1959. It is 186.6 kmē. The Bratsk Reservoir (Russia) is filled by the Angara River and was completed in 1967 and is 169.0 kmē. The reservoir is located in south-eastern Siberia. Lake Volta (Ghana) is filled by the Volta River and was completed in 1965 and is 150 kmē. Manicouagan Reservoir (Canada), located in central Quebec is sourced by the Manicouagan River and was completed in 1968 and is 142 kmē.

Answer: River Volga

The River Volga (3,692 km) starts north-west of Moscow and flows through Russia in a southerly direction into the Caspian Sea. The Danube (2,860 km) starts in the Black Forest region of Germany flowing from west to east before entering the Black Sea.
The Danube is probably the most significant commercial waterway in Europe and is the second longest river in Europe. Surprisingly, the Rhine only ranks No 7 in Europe's longest rivers being 1,320 kms long. The Ural River (2,428 km) is the third largest river in Europe and also travels through Russia and ends at the Caspian Sea.
The longest river in the world is the Nile River (Africa) with a length of 6,695 km.

Answer: Dead Sea

The ancient Greeks named "The Seven Seas" as the Aegean, Adriatic, Mediterranean, Black, Red and Caspian Seas, and the Persian Gulf.
While this is no longer a common phrase, the modern version of "The Seven Seas" are made up of the Arctic, North Atlantic, South Atlantic, North Pacific, South Pacific, Indian and Southern Oceans.

Answer: Indian Ocean

Ocean trenches are deep and long narrow depressions on the seabed which make them the deepest parts of the ocean floor.
The Sunda Trench in the Indian Ocean is 7,725 m in depth, whereas the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean at 19,994 m is the deepest ocean trench in the world.
The Atlantic Ocean has the Puerto Rico Trench that is 8,800 m in depth and the Gulf of Mexico, which is an ocean basin, has the Sigsbee Deep which is more like a basin than a trench but is approximately 4,000 m in depth.
The Pacific has the seven deepest trenches in the world (the Mariana, Tonga, Philippine, Kuril-Kamchatka, Izu-Ogasawara and Japan trenches).

Answer: Oroville Dam (CA)

Oroville Dam is east of Oroville, California, and is an earth-fill embankment dam fed by the Feather River and was completed in 1968.
Hoover Dam at 726 ft (221 m) was originally known as Boulder Dam and is near Boulder City, Nevada, and was dedicated by F. D. Roosevelt in 1935. It is in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River and is a concrete arch-gravity dam.
Dworshak Dam has a height of 717 ft ( 219 m) is a concrete gravity dam on the North Fork Clearwater River and was completed in 1973.
Glen Canyon Dam has a height of 710 ft (216 m) and was completed in 1966. It is a concrete arch dam also on the Colorado River.The tallest arch dam in the world in 2015 was Jinping-I Dam in China at a height of 1,001 ft (305 m), while the tallest earth-fill embankment dam in 2015 was Nurek Dam (Tajikistan) at 980 ft (299 m).

Answer: Billabong

The name billabong is thought to derive from the Wiradjuri people, an indigenous Australian Aboriginal tribe, the "bila" meaning river and the "bong" meaning dead. The famous Australian folk song "Waltzing Matilda" is set beside a billabong.
Resaca is a term used in southern Texas for oxbow lakes left by the Rio Grande. A didgeridoo is a natural wooden trumpet or drone pipe developed by indigenous Australians approximately 1,500 years ago. The boomerang, also developed by indigenous Australians, is a throwing tool used for hunting.

Answer: A mixture of salt and fresh water

Brackish water, sometimes called "briny water", has a higher salinity level than fresh water. You will generally find brackish water in estuaries, mangrove swamps, seas, lakes, coastal lagoons, marshes and deltas. The Baltic Sea is a brackish sea and the Caspian Sea, which is the world's largest lake, contains brackish water.

The Black Sea is the world's largest pool of brackish water. Water washing away soil and pieces of rock is known as erosion.

Answer: Most rainfall per year

Rainfall is measured in units of length per unit time, usually in millimetres per hour. One millimetre of rainfall is equivalent of one litre of water per square metre. Majority of the rainiest places are located near mountains and elevations that trap or create constant clouds that eventually release rain.
Mawsynram and Cherrapunji both in Meghalaya State, India (between Bangladesh and Bhutan) are only 15 kms apart and both claim to be the wettest places on earth. Both cities experience over 11 metres of rain per year. Both cities also experience water shortages in winter as there is no rainfall at all.
Tutendo, Colombia, also experiences over 11 metres of rainfall per year and is near the city of Quibdo. Tutendo ranks third behind Mawsynram and Cherrapunji.
Cropp River, New Zealand, is only 9km in length on the west coast region of the South Island and also experiences over 11 metres of rainfall.
San Antonio de Ureca, Bioko Island, is the wettest place on the African continent and has over 10 metres of rain per year. It has a dry season from November to March.
Siachen Glacier (India) is the second longest glacier in the world outside of the polar regions. It is on the border of India and Pakistan in the north-western part of India.
Paradise Ranger Station, Mt. Rainier, Washington (USA) gets more snow per year than anywhere else in the world.
At San Alfonso del Mar near Algarrobo (Chile), lies the largest swimming pool in the world at the time of its construction. It is a man-made salt water lagoon which covers 20 acres.

Answer: Atchafalaya

The Atchafalaya Swamp is in south central Louisiana and is a combination of wetlands and a river delta where the Atchafalaya River and the Gulf of Mexico converge.
The Okefenokee Swamp is the largest "blackwater" swamp in North America and is a peat-filled wetland straddling the Florida-Georgia borders.
The Everglades in southern Florida are a natural region of subtropical wetlands which experience flooding in the wet season and drought in the dry season.
The Okavango Swamp is in Botswana, Africa, and is the world's largest inland delta. The Okavango River empties into a basin in the Kalahari Desert instead of draining into the sea. Most of the water is lost through evaporation and transpiration.