Quiz  /  Earth’s Seas Quiz

  • 1. 
    What is the alternative name for the Sea of Cortez?

  • Caribbean Sea
  • Gulf of Mexico
  • Gulf of Panama
  • Gulf of California

  • 2. 
    Which of these seas is the largest?

  • Dead Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Sea of Okhotsk
  • Sea of Japan

  • 3. 
    Which of these is the world’s largest inland lake?

  • Black Sea
  • Dead Sea
  • Aral Sea
  • Caspian Sea

  • 4. 
    In 1950 this sea was the world’s fourth largest inland water body, but by the early 21st century it had shrunk to a tiny fraction of its size because of water diversion.

  • Aral Sea
  • Dead Sea
  • Black Sea
  • Sea of Galilee

  • 5. 
    Which sea completely surrounds the island of Jamaica?

  • Red Sea
  • Arabian Sea
  • Caribbean Sea
  • Mediterranean Sea

  • 6. 
    Which northern sea is ringed by Siberia, Novaya Zemlya, Franz Josef Land, and Severnaya Zemlya?

  • Baltic Sea
  • Kara Sea
  • Labrador Sea
  • Barents Sea

  • 7. 
    The Tasman Sea separates which countries from one another?

  • Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and China
  • India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, and Indonesia
  • Australia and Indonesia
  • Australia and New Zealand

  • 8. 
    British explorer Ernest Shackleton and his crew of the Endurance were trapped in the ice of this sea about 1915.

  • Weddell Sea
  • Amundsen Sea
  • Arafura Sea
  • Ross Sea

  • 9. 
    Which tiny sea, enclosed by the Bosporus and Dardanelles straits, links the Black Sea with the Mediterranean?

  • Sea of Azov
  • Dead Sea
  • Sea of Marmara
  • Adriatic Sea

  • 10. 
    Which inland sea is at Earth’s lowest surface elevation, about 1,410 feet (430 meters) below sea level?

  • Dead Sea
  • Aral Sea
  • Sea of Galilee
  • Caspian Sea
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