Quiz  /  Canals, Straits, and More Quiz

  • 1. 
    Ireland’s Bantry Bay is a long inlet of which body of water?

  • Atlantic Ocean
  • North Sea
  • North Channel
  • Irish Sea

  • 2. 
    What is the name of the vast area of saltwater swamps that form the lower Ganges delta of India?

  • Rann of Kachchh
  • Duars
  • Tarai
  • Sundarbans

  • 3. 
    Which two bodies of water does the Suez Canal connect?

  • Mediterranean Sea and Red Sea
  • Great Lakes and Hudson River
  • Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean
  • North Sea and Baltic Sea

  • 4. 
    Which canal connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?

  • Suez Canal
  • Kiel Canal
  • Main-Danube Canal
  • Panama Canal

  • 5. 
    Which strait separates the continents of Asia and North America at their closest point?

  • Bering Strait
  • Palk Strait
  • Menai Strait
  • Bass Strait

  • 6. 
    Which body of water lies between Great Britain and France?

  • Irish Sea
  • North Sea
  • Caspian Sea
  • English Channel

  • 7. 
    Which European city’s main waterway is called the Grand Canal?

  • Venice
  • Stockholm
  • Amsterdam
  • London

  • 8. 
    What lies between the Pillars of Hercules?

  • Strait of Malacca
  • Strait of Gibraltar
  • Strait of Dover
  • Bering Strait

  • 9. 
    What are separated by the channels known as The Minch and Little Minch?

  • North Island and South Island, New Zealand
  • Scotland and the Hebrides
  • Russia and the United States
  • Indonesia and Malaysia

  • 10. 
    The two main islands of New Zealand are separated by which strait?

  • Bass Strait
  • Cook Strait
  • Bering Strait
  • Strait of Hormuz

  • 11. 
    What is the name of the reservoir formed by the Aswan High Dam?

  • Lake Erie
  • Lake Huron
  • Lake Mead
  • Lake Nasser

  • 12. 
    What links the Persian Gulf with the Gulf of Oman?

  • Strait of Hormuz
  • Palk Strait
  • Gulf of Mannar
  • Musandam Peninsula

  • 13. 
    Also known as an arroyo, which of the following is a type of dry desert channel?

  • pediment
  • barchan
  • wadi
  • butte

  • 14. 
    Low-salinity waters enter the Arctic Ocean from the Pacific Ocean through which strait?

  • Strait of Gibraltar
  • Bering Strait
  • Strait of Magellan
  • Palk Strait

  • 15. 
    What is the stretch of water that joins the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea?

  • Strait of Gibraltar
  • Strait of Magellan
  • Suez Canal
  • Panama Canal

  • 16. 
    Which stretch of water separates Australia and Tasmania?

  • St. George’s Channel
  • Torres Strait
  • Bass Strait
  • Cook Strait

  • 17. 
    The Straits of Mackinac, located off the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan, connect Lake Michigan with which other lake?

  • Lake Superior
  • Lake Ontario
  • Lake Huron
  • Lake Erie

  • 18. 
    What canal connecting the Atlantic and Pacific oceans opened for traffic in 1914?

  • Grand Canal
  • Pien Canal
  • Suez Canal
  • Panama Canal
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