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Caspian Sea. The Caspian sea is actually considered a lake, not a sea, despite its name. It is called a sea because the Romans called it 'mare Caspium' (or salty lake).
Lake Titicaca. Lake Titicaca has an area of 3,200 sq. miles. Lake Maracaibo has a total surface area of 5,217 sq. miles, but is not technically a lake. Rather, it is a bay.
Nile River. The Amazon is the longest river in South America, Mississippi in North America, and Yangtze in Asia. The Nile is the longest in Africa and the world.
Atlantic Ocean. It is located in the North Atlantic Ocean, and it's not so icy as the name might lead you to believe!
Russia. All 3 can be found entirely in Russia, but in the Asian portion. The longest river in the European portion of Russia is the Volga (also the longest river in Europe!)
Gulf of Mexico. It seems strange, since it covers the entire bottom portion of Texas and defines its border with Mexico, but it does extend all the way to the Gulf of Mexico!
All are man-made lakes. The three lakes mentioned were created by dams. Powell is in southern Utah, with a bottom tip stretching into Arizona. Lake Mead is in Nevada. Lake Nassar is in Egypt and is named for Gamal Nassar who was president when the lake was built.
Angel Falls. Angel falls is located in Venezuela, and is 3,281 feet (1,000 m) tall.
Lake Michigan. Both Lake Erie and Lake Superior are partially in Canada. The Great Salt Lake is in Utah, but is smaller than Lake Michigan, which is surrounded by Michigan and Wisconsin. I love flying over that lake at night, you can see the outlines of Chicago and Milwaukee quite vividly on a clear day!
Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean's deepest point is at the Marianas trench, 36,198 feet (11,033 m). It is so deep, Mt. Everest could be placed within it and still have 6,000 feet to spare! If you enjoyed this quiz you might want to try my quizzes on islands, isthmi and/or straits of the world...good luck!
Alaska. Alaska has over 3 million lakes, Wisconsin has 14,000 and Minnesota, 10,000.
USA. Located in Oregon, USA, the 'D' river runs between Devil's Lake and the Pacific Ocean and is only 120 feet long.
Caspian Sea. Odd but true.
| True or False: Bill Clinton signed into effect a law specifying Lake Champlain, Vermont, as the sixth Great Lake? | Useless Facts About Water
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| Char-gogga-gogg-manchaugg-agogg-chabuna-gonga-maugg is the name of a lake in New England. What is it more commonly known as? | Useless Facts About Water
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Lake Webster. It means, 'You fish on your side, I fish on mine, Nobody fishes in the middle. '
| True or False: Under a 2 mile thick layer of ice at the South Pole, is an unfrozen lake the size of Lake Ontario? | Useless Facts About Water
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| True or False: The state of Michigan has a shoreline longer than the Eastern shoreline of the USA (Eastern shoreline running from Maine to the tip of Florida)? | Useless Facts About Water
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True . The Michigan shoreline is 3100 miles.
| True or False: You could stand two Empire State buildings on top of one another and they would equal the depth of the deepest lake? | Useless Facts About Water
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False . Actually it would take four (1637 meters)
| This waterfall is the largest in the world when in full flood.
It's located In Zambia/Zimbabwe,Africa.
What's its name? | Waterfalls of the World
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Victoria Falls. Victoria Falls became a World Heritage Site in 1989 for being one of the most spectacular waterfalls in the world.
| This waterfall is actually comprised of three separate waterfalls and the three falls are separated by two islands, Goat Island and Luna Island. Do you know its name? | Waterfalls of the World
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Niagara Falls. The names of the separate waterfalls are:
American Falls:Located on the New York side of the Gorge, between Prospect Point and Luna Island, the northwest facing American Falls has a straight line crest width of about 830 feet (253 m).
The Bridal Veil Falls:Located between Luna Island (97 feet (30 m) wide) and Goat Island (1,590 feet (485 m) wide) is the Bridal Veil Falls, the smallest of the three falls of Niagara.
Horseshoe Falls:Sometimes called the Canadian Falls, is located between Terrapin Point on Goat Island in New York, and Table Rock House in Ontario. The border between Canada and the Unites States is located less than 100 feet (30 m) south of Terrapin Point, so about 98% of the falls is located in Canada.
Iguazu . The Iguazu Falls is located at the boarder of Brazil/Argentina and Paraguay.It's 3 miles wide and 250 feet high.
Venezuela. Angel Falls("Salto Del Angel") is located in the Guayana highlands, It free falls 2,421 feet to the river below, making it the tallest waterfalls on earth. In total it is 15 times higher than Niagara Falls with a total of 2,937 feet.
The falls are named after Jimmy Angel, a barnstorming bush pilot from Missouri who has become a modern legend. Jimmy Angel first saw the falls in 1933 while searching for a valuable ore bed
Norway. Called "Mardalsfossen" and its also the fifth tallest waterfall in the world with a total fall on 705 m.
| Some of the tallest waterfalls are found in this valley in California.What's the name of the valley? | Waterfalls of the World
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Yosemite. Yosemite National Park is located in the central Sierra Nevada of California and lies 150 miles east of San Francisco and only a six hour drive from Los Angeles. Designated a World Heritage Site in 1984, Yosemite is internationally recognized for its spectacular granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, giant sequoia groves, and biological diversity.Yosemite Falls (with a total drop of 2,425 feet) is the tallest fall in the valley.
New Zealand. The Sutherland Falls, in the South Island was formed by a glacier chiselling a path through a valley.
The widest waterfall in Australia. These are the widest falls in Australia, spilling over an old basalt lava flow. Millstream Falls National Park is on the western edge of the World Heritage Area.
Lake of the Woods. Any body of water feeding the Great Lakes drains into the St. Lawrence, but the Lake of the Woods (mostly in Ontario and Minnesota) drains, via the Winnipeg River, into Lake Winnipeg, and thus into the Hudson Bay watershed. Lac St.-Jean (in Quebec), drains into the Saguenay River, a tributary of the St. Lawrence. Lake Winnebago (in Wisconsin) drains into Lake Michigan via the Fox River, and Cayuga Lake (in New York), drains into Lake Ontario via the Seneca and Oswego Rivers.
Lake George. All of these bodies of water are in New York State, but Lake George drains into Lake Champlain, and thus into the St. Lawrence via the Richelieu River. The Mohawk river is a tributary of the Hudson, as is the Croton, dammed in 1837 to provide a source of water for New York City. Tappan Zee refers to a wide portion of the Hudson about ten miles north of New York City.
Lehigh River. The Lehigh River in Pennsylvania is a tributary of the Delaware, which flows into Delaware Bay. The Juniata (in Pennsylvania) is a tributary of the Susquehanna, the Rapidan (in Virginia) a tributary of the Rappahannock, and the Shenandoah (in Virginia) a tributary of the Potomac, all of which flow directly into Chesapeake Bay.
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