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  1. What is the largest lake in the world by surface area?
  2. The Straits of Mackinac connect which two lakes?
  3. Lake Van is the largest lake in which country?
  4. Which large river connects the Great Lakes to the North Atlantic Ocean?
  5. In Australian English, what name is given to an oxbow lake caused by a change in the course of a river or creek?
  6. Name the deepest lake in England, famous for its 'screes' that blanket the valley side above the lake?
  7. The largest island in a lake is Manitoulin Island in which American Great Lake?
  8. What is the highest large lake in the world?
  9. What is the world's largest freshwater lake by surface area?
  10. Name the world's largest freshwater lake by volume.
  11. Yellowknife is a city on the northern shore of which lake?
  12. Going by the metric of surface area, what is the largest freshwater lake in the UK? It is Lough Neagh, in Northern Ireland.
  13. By what English name is Llyn Tegid in Gwynedd, Wales, known?
  14. Name the largest freshwater lake in Central America.
  15. The world's longest freshwater lake, shared among Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (the DRC), Burundi, and Zambia, is Lake Tanganyika. Can you name it?
  16. Which European lake is overlooked by the Freddie Mercury statue?
  17. Which lake is the largest entirely in Canada?
  18. Can you name Australia's largest inland lake?
  19. A popular holiday location, can you name the largest lake in Italy?
  20. Which almost 500-kilometre-long reservoir formed after the Aswan High Dam was built across the Nile River?
  21. Lake Tiberias is a freshwater lake in Israel, better known by what name?


Answers



  1. Caspian Sea
  2. The Straits of Mackinac connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron
  3. Turkey
  4. The St. Lawrence River
  5. Billabong
  6. Wastwater
  7. Lake Huron
  8. Lake Titicaca
  9. Lake Superior
  10. Lake Baikal
  11. Great Slave Lake
  12. Lough Neagh
  13. Bala Lake
  14. Lake Nicaragua (also known as Cocibolca or Granada)
  15. Lake Tanganyika
  16. Lake Geneva
  17. Great Bear Lake
  18. Lake Eyre
  19. Lake Gardda
  20. Lake Nasser
  21. Sea of Galilee