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Exploring the Baltic Sea: A Quiz on Geography and Ecology

Test your knowledge about the Baltic Sea, its geography, ecology, and historical significance with this engaging quiz.

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1 What does the following picture show?  Baltic Sea in Darłowo.   Polish coast dunes.   Much of modern Finland is former seabed or archipelago: illustrated are sea levels immediately after the last ice age.   Main trading routes of the Hanseatic League.

2 It is bounded by the Scandinavian Peninsula, the mainland of ________, and the Danish islands.

3 The most common fish species that can be found in the Baltic Sea are ________, herring, hake, plaice, flounder, sea trout, eel and turbot.

4 Where is Baltic Sea?

5 How long in km is Baltic Sea?

6 What does the following picture show?  Port of Kaliningrad   Phytoplankton bloom in the Baltic Proper, July 3, 2001.   Baltic Sea in Darłowo.

7 Kvarken archipelago, including Valassaaret/Valsörarna (________)

8 The Baltic Sea is a brackish inland sea, allegedly the largest body of brackish water in the world (other possibilities include the ________ and Hudson Bay).

9 What is the area of Baltic Sea in square km?

10 The ________, ending with Sweden's defeat, brought Russia to the eastern coast.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Karl Johanslussen (pictured) is one of the locks and sluices between Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea that give rise to the name of the Slussen area of central Stockholm.
  • the Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant in Klaipėda, Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s, is the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region.
  • the cargo of the Dalarö wreck (pictured), sunk in the Baltic Sea, included coal and several Bartmann jugs.
  • the most powerful recorded earthquake in Estonia, measuring 4.7 magnitudes in Richter scale, occurred in 1976 near the Baltic Sea island of Osmussaar (pictured).
  • the French ironclad Jeanne d'Arc (model pictured) was part of a squadron of French ships that attempted to blockade Prussian ports in the Baltic Sea in 1870, during the Franco-Prussian War.
  • the Brandenburg Navy (pictured) fought in many battles in the Baltic Sea before merging with the Prussian Navy in 1701.
  • a British submarine flotilla dominated the Baltic Sea for a major part of WWI, but the loss of the Socialists in the Finnish Civil War forced the crews to scuttle the fleet outside Helsinki.
  • in the Polish–Muscovite War of 1577–1582, Muscovy failed in its attempt to gain access to the Baltic Sea.
  • the Augustów Canal in north-eastern Poland (pictured) was built in order to circumvent high customs duties introduced by Prussia for the transit of goods to the Baltic Sea.
  • abrasion has destroyed the 14th century Church in Trzęsacz, Poland, near the Baltic Sea, except for part of its southern wall.
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