Exploring Canals: A Quiz on Waterways and Their History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

the Canal de Marseille, built in 1849, is an 80 kilometres (50 mi) canal which runs through Provence to bring water from the Durance to Marseille, in France.

the French navigation authority Voies navigables de France manages 3,800-kilometre (2,400 mi) of canals and 2,900-kilometre (1,800 mi) rivers on the largest network of waterways in Europe.

notable former residents of Zwanenburgwal (pictured), a canal and street in the centre of Amsterdam, include Dutch painter Rembrandt and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.

the English Canal was a partially completed canal project started in 1864 that would connect the iron ore fields in northern Sweden with the Gulf of Bothnia.

the Itchen Navigation canal provided an essential trading route between the historic city of Winchester and the port of Southampton.

water from Tin Brook (pictured) was diverted to create the first canal in New York history.

the final section of La Nouvelle branch (pictured), a canal in south-central France, was constructed in 1776 to link Narbonne to the Canal du Midi.

although Lehigh Gorge State Park in Pennsylvania is now known for whitewater rafting on the Lehigh River, in the 19th century it was the site of a canal built to bypass those same rapids.

King Dhatusena, who ruled Sri Lanka from 455 to 473, constructed 18 irrigation tanks, an irrigation canal, and the Avukana Buddha Statue.

Delaware Canal State Park in Pennsylvania contains the only intact 19th century towpath canal in the United States.

listed buildings in Minshull Vernon, Cheshire, include five canal bridges, two aqueducts and a former privy.

Dismal Swamp Canal which runs along the edge of the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia and North Carolina is the oldest continually operating man-made canal in the United States.

Project Aqua was a proposed hydroelectric scheme for the lower Waitaki River in New Zealand that would have diverted up to 77% of the river's flow into a separate canal.

turret deck ships incurred lower canal tolls because tonnage measurements used to calculate those tolls did not account for the vessels' unique shape.

Sankey Valley Park, Warrington (pictured) follows the course of the historical Sankey Canal, England's first canal.

10,000 people were employed in the 1830s simply to build canals by the Indiana Mammoth Internal Improvement Act.

Exploring Canals: A Quiz on Waterways and Their History

1 Where such sources were unavailable, ________, either separate from the canal, or built into its course, and back pumping was used to provide the required water.

2 The ________ in Pakistan and North India (circa 2600 BC) had sophisticated irrigation and storage systems developed, including the reservoirs built at Girnar in 3000 BC.

3 Due to globalization, they are becoming increasingly important, resulting in expansion projects such as the ________.

4 ________

5 The oldest canal built for industrial purposes in North America is Mother Brook in ________.

6 In the ________, water transport was cheaper and faster than transport overland.

7 The oldest known canals were irrigation canals, built in Mesopotamia circa 4000 BC, in what is now modern day ________ and Syria.

8 The Rideau Canal, completed in 1832, connects Ottawa, on the Ottawa River to ________ on Lake Ontario.

9 Included here are inter-ocean canals such as the Suez Canal and the ________.

10 Waterway canals that are navigable transportation canals used for carrying ships and boats loaded with goods and people, often connected to existing ________, rivers, or oceans.

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