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Lakes - Multiple Choice

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about world lakes?
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1. What is the small lake found in the middle of desert called?
Spring
Freshet
Oasis
Lagoon
2. What country shares the longest border with Caspian Sea?
Kazakhstan has 1,892 km of coastline and Turkmenistan in the 2nd place with 1,767 km
Russia
Iran
Azerbaijan
Turkmenistan
Kazakhstan
3. How many Great Lakes are there?
Michigan, Huron, Erie, Ontario and Superior are the ones
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4. Which one of these used to be world's 4th largest lake?
Since 1960s the Soviets used it for irrigation projects and caused its shrink
Sarygamysh Lake
Qinghai Lake
Lake Turkana
Aral Sea
5. What is the oldest and deepest lake in the world?
It is also the largest freshwater lake in terms of volume
Lake Baikal
Lake Chad
Great Slave Lake
Lake Titicaca
6. In which country would you find Lake Van?
It is Middle East's largest lake
Turkey
Sweden
Brazil
Philippines
7. What is the largest lake in Antarctica?
It's almost the same size (surface area) as East Timor with 12,500 square km
Lake Vostok
Lake Taymyr
Lake Albert
Lake Ellsworth
8. What type of lake is a pond?
A small lake
Lake that is connected to another lake by a river
A shallow lake (not that deep)
Salt lake
9. South America's largest lake (area), Lake Titicaca, is located between which countries?
Argentina and Paraguay
Argentina and Chile
Bolivia and Chile
Bolivia and Peru
10. What is the maximum depth of Lake Tanganyika?
It is world's second deepest lake after Russia's Lake Baikal
970 m (3,180 ft)
1,020 m (3,340 ft)
1,470 m (4,820 ft)
910 m (2,980 ft)
11. Which lake has the most species of fish than any other lakes?
Africa's 3rd largest lake, around 800 fish species are estimated to be found in it
Great Bear Lake
Lake Malawi
Lake Urmia
Saima
12. In which one of these lakes does freshwater sharks live?
It is one of the few that does
Lake Nicaragua, Nicaragua
Lake Volta, Ghana
Crater Lake, United States
Lake Taupo, New Zealand
13. Australia's largest lake is called Lake Eyre. In which state is it located?
South Australia
Queensland
Tasmania
New South Wales
14. Out of top 10 world's biggest lakes by area, how many of them are surrounded by only one country?
U.S.A.'s Michigan, Russia's Baikal and Canada's Great Slave - and Bear Lakes
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15. Which one is European Union's largest lake?
In Europe (continent) it is the 4th largest after three bigger lakes in Russia
Vänern, Sweden
Lake Garda, Italy
Saimaa, Finland
IJsselmeer, Netherlands
16. Which one of these statements about the Dead Sea is NOT true?
Syria does not border Dead Sea, Palestine does
Contains earth's lowest elevation on land
Is a salt lake
Is bordered by Israel, Jordan and Syria
Jordan River is its inflow
17. The largest lake on an island is Nettilling Lake. Which island is it on?
Canada's largest island has it
Great Britain
Luzon
New Guinea
Baffin Island
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