"Water, Water, Everywhere"- bodies of water Quiz

Answer: It has no shoreline.

The Sargasso Sea is a body of water surrounded by other bodies of water. Its waters never touch a coastline.

It is bounded on the north by the North Atlantic Current and on the south by the North Atlantic Equatorial Current. The eastern side of the Sargasso Sea is constrained by the Canary Current, and the western side by the Gulf Stream. The Sargasso Sea is 2,000 statute miles long and 700 statute miles wide. Its name is derived from the large amounts of seaweed from the genus Sargassum that float upon it.

Answer: Bay of Bengal

The triangular shaped Bay of Bengal is by far the largest, occupying 2,172,000 sq. km. It has coastlines on India and Sri Lanka to the west, Bangladesh to the north, and Myanmar (formerly Burma) to the east.
Hudson Bay is next, occupying 1,230,000 sq. km.
Baffin Bay occupies 689,000 sq. km.
The Bay of Fundy occupies merely 9,300 sq. km.

Answer: about 700 sq. miles

The Okefenokee Swamp covers an area of approximately 700 square miles over parts of two states, the northeast part of Florida and the southeast part of Georgia.

Answer: Lake Superior

The big freighter, used mainly to transport iron ore, ran into a deadly storm on Lake Superior and went down near Whitefish Bay, WI. The entire crew of 29 perished, including Captain Ernest McSorley.
The event was memorialized in a song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" (1976), written, composed, and recorded by Canadian artist Gordon Lightfoot.

Answer: Florida and Georgia

After rising from the Okefenokee Swamp, the Suwanee river runs through the two southeastern states of Florida and Georgia.
It is the subject of a Steven Foster song, "The Old Folks at Home" (1851).

Answer: Atlantic

The Atlantic Ocean, which covers approximately 41 million square miles, is the world's second largest, behind only the Pacific Ocean, which covers about 65 million sq. mi.

The Indian Ocean, which is the world's warmest ocean, covers about 28 million sq. mi., and the Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) is the runt of the litter, covering approximately 542,000 sq. mi.

Answer: Red Lake

Red Lake in the northern part of the state is the "Big Kahuna", covering over 288,000 acres or 444 sq. miles.
Given its proximity to Canada, in the winter Minnesota should probably be called "The Land of 10,000 Skating Rinks".

Answer: Germany

The Danube originates in the Black Forest region of Germany, and flows for almost 1,800 miles through Austria, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Ukraine, Serbia, Croatia, and Moldova. It finally empties into the Black Sea between Romania and Ukraine.
The Volga is the only river in Europe that is longer than the Danube.

Answer: The Gulf of Mexico

And the winner is: The Gulf of Mexico, which is not only the largest gulf in the world, but is also the world's tenth largest body of water. It covers approximately 615,000 square miles. Its deepest point, at Sigsbee Deep, is almost 14,500 feet below sea level.

Answer: The Philippine Sea

The largest is the Philippine Sea which covers about two million square miles. It is bounded on the north by several Japanese islands (including Honshu), on the east by The Marianas, on the southeast by the Caroline Islands, on the southwest by the Philippine Archipelago, including Luzon, and Taiwan is on its western border.

The Coral Sea covers roughly 1.850 million square miles.
The Arabian Sea covers approximately 1.1 million square miles.
The Mediterranean Sea comes in at just a little under the million mark, covering about 965,000 square miles.