World Lakes R2L

1. A lake

• a) always contains fresh water.

• b) stays the same size forever.

• c) is a body of water surrounded by land.

• d) is the same depth as the rivers that run into it.

2. Why is Lake Tanganyika so long and narrow?

• a) It is really a river.

• b) Not many rivers empty into it.

• c) It is in a rift valley.

• d) No one knows.

3. Who or what was Lake Victoria named after?

• a) Uganda’s victory over Kenya in a war

• b) Queen Victoria of England

• c) the city of Victoria in Canada

• d) the Australian who discovered the lake

4. Which of the following lakes is not in Africa?

• a) Lake Chad

• b) Lake Baikal

• c) Lake Victoria

• d) Lake Tanganyika

5. Which lake is the source of the Nile River?

• a) Lake Victoria

• b) Lake Chad

• c) Lake Baikal

• d) Lake Titicaca

6. On what continent is Lake Maracaibo located?

• a) Africa

• b) South America

• c) Asia

• d) North America

7. A strait is

• a) a small rift-valley lake.

• b) a kind of canal that was built during the 1800s.

• c) a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water.

• d) a process engineers use to straighten rivers.

8. Which Great Lake is entirely in the United States?

• a) Lake Michigan

• b) Lake Ontario

• c) Lake Huron

• d) Lake Superior

9. On which lake did the Edmund Fitzgerald sink?

• a) Lake Michigan

• b) Lake Huron

• c) Lake Superior

• d) Lake Ontario

10. Why do things on the bottom of Lake Baikal appear close?

• a) The water is shallow.

• b) The lake has magnifying water.

• c) The water is clear.

• d) The lake has lots of pebbles.