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Exploring Lakes: A Knowledge Quiz

A quiz designed to test your knowledge about lakes, their characteristics, and notable examples around the world.

#Lakes #Geography #Environment #Natural Sciences #Hydrology

1 The largest lake located completely within the boundaries of a single city is Lake Wanapitei in the city of Sudbury, ________, Canada.

2 Any water within an endorheic basin leaves the system only through ________ or seepage.

3 Two notable remnants of this lake are ________ and Lake Winnipegosis.

4 Asia - Lake Baikal (if the ________ is considered a lake, it is the largest in Eurasia, but is divided between the two geographic continents)

5 What does the following picture show?  Salt crystals, on the shore of Lake Urmia, Iran   Badwater Basin dry lake, February 15, 2007. Landsat 5 satellite photo.   Salt crystals, on the shore of Lake Urmia, Iran   Lake Chad in a 2001 satellite image, with the actual lake in blue, and vegetation on top of the old lake bed in green.

6 The largest lake located on an island is Nettilling Lake on ________, with an area of 5542 km² and a maximum length of 123 km.

7 ________, which once covered much of central North America, is a good example of a shrunken lake.

8 What does the following picture show?  Titan's north polar hydrocarbon seas and lakes as seen in a false-color Cassini synthetic aperture radar mosaic.   A portion of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States   The Caspian Sea is considered either the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea.[1]   A portion of the Great Salt Lake in Utah, United States

9 Water in this type of lake may be fresh or highly ________, and may contain various dissolved minerals.

10 Large lakes are occasionally referred to as 'inland seas,' and small seas are occasionally referred to as lakes, such as ________, which is actually a bay.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • geologist Amund Helland published pioneering works on glacial erosion and the role of glaciers in the formation of valleys, fjords and lakes in the mid 1870s.
  • Wollaston Lake is the largest lake in the world that drains naturally in two directions.
  • Theodore Roosevelt Lake, a large artificial reservoir located along the Salt River, is the largest lake located entirely within the U.S. state of Arizona.
  • in the U.S. state of Michigan, no one is more than 6 miles (10 km) from a lake.
  • the Polish lake Morskie Oko was once called "Fish Lake" due to its natural stock of fish, which are uncommon in lakes and ponds of the Tatra Mountains.
  • the two dams and reservoir that form the Bull Run Hydroelectric Project will be decommissioned in 2008 due to the rising costs of meeting environmental laws.
  • the Gull River system of reservoirs in Ontario controls the water levels of the Trent-Severn Canal, although they were not originally created for this purpose.
  • Taylorsville Lake State Park is the most heavily stocked lake in Kentucky.
  • Pampa Sarovar, the place in Hindu mythology where Shiva's consort Parvati performed penance to show her devotion to him, is a lake in Karnataka.
  • Green Lake in Texas, is the largest natural freshwater lake entirely within the state, despite its proximity to the brackish waters of San Antonio Bay.
  • Caesars Creek State Park has 7,900 acres centered around a 2,800 acre lake created by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
  • Lake Karla is the only lake in the plain of Thessaly.
  • Lake Pichola (pictured), an artificial fresh water lake created in 1362, is named after the nearby Picholi village in Udaipur city.
  • Mountain Lake, one of only two natural lakes in Virginia, was the filming location for the fictional Kellerman's Resort in New York's Catskill Mountains for the 1987 feature film Dirty Dancing.
  • Lake Urmia, Iran's largest lake, is too salty to support fish.
  • Lake Balaton (pictured), a popular tourist attraction in Hungary, is the largest freshwater lake in Central Europe.
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