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American Lakes Flashcards

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This Florida lake bears a Hitchiti name that means “big water”

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Lake Okeechobee

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This type of shrimp named for its salty habitat has been called the most numerous inhabitant of the Great Salt Lake

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brine shrimp

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This lake in Upstate New York was named in 1755 to honor the then-current British monarch

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Lake George

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The name of this resort island in Lake Huron used to have “Michili- “ in front of it

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Mackinac

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In the 19th c., this 22-mile-long lake in the Sierra Nevada lost most of the forest around it, used for timber in the Comstock mines

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Lake Tahoe

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Due to its serpentine curves, this large reservoir in central Missouri has been called “the Magic Dragon”

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The Lake of the Ozarks

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It’s the smallest of the Great Lakes by surface area & the one farthest east

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Ontario

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U.S. Coast Guard units based in Cleveland, Ohio are known as the “Guardians of” these bodies of water

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The Great Lakes

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Drought has depleted this lake, the USA’s largest man-made reservoir & a major source of Las Vegas’ water

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Lake Mead

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Millard Fillimore was born in this state’s Finger Lakes region in 1800; in 1830 he moved to Buffalo

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New York

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These “form the world’s largest freshwater body (in surface area)”

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The Great Lakes

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12
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Of the 5 Great Lakes, it’s the highest above sea level

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Lake Superior

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This bloodsucking eel-like fish arrived in Lake Erie around 1920; within 25 years all the Great Lakes were infested

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Lamprey

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Tonka Toys got their name from this lake, one of the largest in the Land of 10,000 Lakes

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Minnetoba

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Legend says his footprints & those of his blue ox, Babe, created Minnesota’s 10,000 lakes

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Paul Bunyan

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One of the world’s biggest artificially created lakes, the Lake of the Ozarks in this state has a shoreline of more than 1,000 miles

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Missouri

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17
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French name of the canals between Lakes Superior & Huron that handle about 10,000 vessel passages a year

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Soo Locks

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22 miles long & 6,225 feet up, this lake on the California-Nevada border is the USA’s biggest Alpine lake

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Lake Tahoe

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Lake McConaughy, this state’s largest lake, is a reservoir created by the Kingsley Dam on the North Platte River

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Nebraska

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20
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38 miles long & 3 miles wide at its broadest point, Seneca is the largest of this “body part” group of lakes

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Finger Lakes

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21
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A narrow passage called the Rigolets connects this Louisiana Lake to Lake Borgne & the Gulf of Mexico

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Lake Pontchartrain

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In 1699 Sieur d’Iberville saw Okwata, a vast lake near the Gulf of Mexico, & renamed it this

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Lake Pontchartrain

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23
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The Chicago River flows out of this Great Lake

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Lake Michigan

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24
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In surface area this one of the 5 Great Lakes is the largest body of fresh water in the world

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Lake Superior

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25
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This lake in Oregon is the second-deepest lake in North America

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Crater Lake

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26
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Large rivers that enter this lake include the St. Joseph, Muskegon & Kalamazoo

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Lake Michigan

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The Soo Canals at the twin cities of Sault Ste Marie in Michigan & Ontario allow ships to pass between these two Great Lakes

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Superior and Huron

28
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Between 1913 & 1932 Canada dug a new & deeper version of the Welland Canal that connects these 2 Great Lakes

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Erie and Ontario

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The shallowest of the Great Lakes, it was the site of a U.S. naval victory in 1813

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Erie

30
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At about 1,700 square miles, this saline lake is one of the largest lakes in the world with no outlet

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Salt Lake

31
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The smallest of the Great Lakes in area

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Ontario

32
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2 answers please: the smallest & the largest of the Great Lakes

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Ontario and Superior

33
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Yellowstone Lake

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Wyoming

34
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Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees

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Oklahoma

35
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Lake Shasta

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California

36
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Sam Rayburn Lake

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Texas

37
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Lake Peekskill

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New York

38
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The northern tip of this long lake on the border between Vermont & New York extends into Quebec

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Lake Champlain

39
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The Straits of Mackinac separate the Upper & Lower Peninsulas & connect these two Great Lakes

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Huron and Michigan

40
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The last house where Kurt Cobain lived was by this lake with a presidential name

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Lake Washington (Seattle)

41
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Grande Isle & Isle La Motte are in this, the fourth-largest freshwater lake entirely in the U.S.

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Lake Champlain

42
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Halalii Lake

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Hawaii

43
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Lake Tahoe

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Nevada and California

44
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Coeur d’Alene Lake (pronounced Core-duh-lane)

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Idaho

45
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Lake Kissimmee

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Florida

46
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Chickamauga Lake

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Tennessee

47
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Despite Minnesota’s claim as the Land of 10,000 Lakes, this U.S. state has the most, with more than 3 million

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Alaska

48
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Oregon is in deep with this body of water on its state quarter

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Crater Lake

49
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John C. Fremont named this Nevada lake seen here for its tufa or rock formation

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Pyramid Lake

50
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This large Louisiana lake is named for Louis XIV’s marine minister

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Lake Pontchartrain

51
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This lake whose French name means “heart of an awl” is at the heart of a beautiful resort area in Idaho

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Lake Coeur d’Alene

52
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Pend Oreille is the largest of the thousands of lakes in this “Gem State”

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Idaho

53
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A memorial on an island in this Great Lake honors Oliver Hazard Perry’s victory there during the War of 1812

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Erie

54
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About 116 square miles in area, Moosehead is the largest lake in this “Pine Tree State”

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Maine

55
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This lake in the Western U.S. has a specific gravity that is 10-22% higher than that of fresh water

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Great Salt Lake

56
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This largest Florida lake covers about 700 square miles, but its greatest depth is only about 15 feet

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Lake Okeechobee

57
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J. Strom Thurmond Lake, which has more than 100 small islands, lies on this state’s border with Georgia

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South Carolina

58
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The 2nd-largest freshwater lake totally within the U.S., this state’s Lake Iliamna is the spawning ground for red salmon

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Alaska

59
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Hawaii’s Lake Waiau lies at 13,020 feet, atop this dormant volcano on the Big Island

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Mauna Kea

60
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Lake Mead straddles the border between these 2 states

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Arizona and Nevada

61
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Lobster Lake

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Maine

62
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The Straits of Mackinac connect these 2 Great Lakes

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Lake Michigan and Huron

63
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The city of Provo is just east of the lake that shares its name with this state in which Provo is located

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Utah

64
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Grosse Pointe, a suburb of this metropolis, lies on the shores of Lake St. Clair

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Detroit

65
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Rather than Lake Sallier, Louisianans took a settler’s first name & called their city this

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Lake Charles

66
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Fed by the Kissimmee River, it’s the largest freshwater lake in the southern United States

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Lake Okeechobee

67
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This lake in Manitoba, Ontario & Minnesota is a remnant of an extinct glacial lake

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Lake of the Woods

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