Bing Lakes Quiz – Great Lakes and Global Water Wonders
The Bing Lakes Quiz finds the facts behind famous lakes around the world, from the Great Lakes and Lake Baikal to the Caspian Sea, Lake Titicaca, Lake Victoria, the Dead Sea and Loch Ness. Some lakes are vast, some are incredibly deep, and some aren't fresh at all.
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🎯 Daily Trivia Challenge • 🧠 10 Questions • ⏱️ 150 Seconds
Size
Which body of water is the largest lake in the world by area?
Great Lakes
Which of the Great Lakes is the largest freshwater lake by area in the world?
Great Lakes
Which of the five Great Lakes is the only one entirely inside US territory?
Altitude
Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, lies on the border of Peru and which country?
Africa
Which lake is the source of the White Nile?
Salt
What makes the Dead Sea so easy to float in?
Scotland
Which Scottish loch is famous for legends of a monster called Nessie?
Depth
Which lake in Africa is the second deepest in the world?
Change
Which Central Asian lake has shrunk dramatically since the 1960s because rivers were diverted for farming?
Color
Canada's Moraine Lake and Lake Louise get their bright turquoise color from what?
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Explanations: answer key for all 10 questions
- Q1: Which body of water is the largest lake in the world by area?
Answer: The Caspian Sea
Despite its name, the Caspian Sea is a lake because it is enclosed by land. Its water is slightly salty.
- Q2: Which of the Great Lakes is the largest freshwater lake by area in the world?
Answer: Lake Superior
Lake Superior covers about 82,000 square kilometers. It holds enough water to cover North and South America in about 30 centimeters of water.
- Q3: Which of the five Great Lakes is the only one entirely inside US territory?
Answer: Lake Michigan
The other four Great Lakes are shared with Canada. Chicago sits on Lake Michigan's southwestern shore.
- Q4: Lake Titicaca, one of the world's highest navigable lakes, lies on the border of Peru and which country?
Answer: Bolivia
Titicaca is about 3,800 meters above sea level. The Uros people live on floating islands made of reeds.
- Q5: Which lake is the source of the White Nile?
Answer: Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake and is shared by Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It is a key source of the Nile.
- Q6: What makes the Dead Sea so easy to float in?
Answer: Its very high salt content
The Dead Sea is almost ten times saltier than the ocean. The dense water pushes swimmers up.
- Q7: Which Scottish loch is famous for legends of a monster called Nessie?
Answer: Loch Ness
Loch Ness holds more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined. Searches have never found a monster.
- Q8: Which lake in Africa is the second deepest in the world?
Answer: Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is about 1,470 meters deep and very old. Only Lake Baikal in Russia is deeper.
- Q9: Which Central Asian lake has shrunk dramatically since the 1960s because rivers were diverted for farming?
Answer: The Aral Sea
The Aral Sea was once one of the four largest lakes in the world. Its shrinking caused serious environmental and health problems.
- Q10: Canada's Moraine Lake and Lake Louise get their bright turquoise color from what?
Answer: Fine rock flour from glaciers
Glaciers grind rock into tiny particles that float in the water. They reflect blue and green light.
Bing Lakes Quiz – Great Lakes and Global Water Wonders
Lakes hold most of the world's liquid fresh surface water and support huge numbers of people, plants and animals. They come in many forms: some are vast and shallow, some extremely deep and some salty rather than fresh.
The Great Lakes of North America form the largest group of freshwater lakes on Earth, and Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake by area. Lake Michigan is the only one entirely inside the United States. By total area, though, the Caspian Sea is the world's biggest lake, even though its water is slightly salty.
Depth and age set other lakes apart. Lake Baikal in Siberia is the deepest, followed by Lake Tanganyika in Africa. Lake Victoria feeds the White Nile, and Lake Titicaca sits high in the Andes between Peru and Bolivia.
Some lakes are famous for other reasons. People float easily in the very salty Dead Sea, monster hunters search Loch Ness, and glacier-fed lakes in Canada shine turquoise. The shrinking Aral Sea shows how fragile lakes can be.
Each of the ten questions in the Bing Lakes Quiz gives you three choices and a short explanation once you answer. The timer runs for 150 seconds, so try to trust your first instinct on the easy ones and save time for the tricky questions near the end. You can replay the quiz as often as you like. Many players find that the second attempt goes much better, because the explanations help the facts stick. Share the quiz with a friend and compare your results.
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What This Quiz Teaches
- The largest lakes
- The Great Lakes
- Deep and ancient lakes
- Salt lakes
- Lakes and rivers
- Lakes under threat
Quick Facts
- Lake Baikal is about 25 million years old.
- Finland is called the land of a thousand lakes, but it has far more.
- Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined.
- Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela is famous for frequent lightning.
- Crater Lake in Oregon is the deepest lake in the US.
- Some lakes freeze solid in winter.
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