Michigan
This peninsula borders 3 of the US Great Lakes, what is the name of this peninsula .
What is the Upper Peninsula?
Lake Erie is the shallowest of the Great Lakes. What is it's average depth (in feet)?
What is 62 feet?
Many tribal nations around Lake Huron exercise these types of rights under federal treaties related to fishing and hunting.
What are treaty rights
This major Minnesota port on Lake Superior is home to the Aerial Lift Bridge.
What is Duluth?
This U.S. state has the longest Lake Ontario shoreline.
What is New York?
This large harbor city in Indiana sits on the southern shore of Lake Michigan and is a hub for steel production.
What is Gary?
How many different states does Lake Erie touch?
(Include Canada as 1 state)
Lake Huron's water is exchanged with Lake Michigan through this natural strait.
What is the Straits of Mackinac?
Lake Superior has the longest resideance time of all of the Great Lakes. What is Lake Superior's water residence time?
What is 191 years?
Lake Ontario drains into this major North American river, which ultimately flows into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the St. Lawrence River?
This federal law, passed in 1972, regulates pollutants discharged into U.S. waters, including Lake Michigan.
What is the Clean Water Act?
In spring and fall, these fish migrate up rivers from Lake Erie to spawn and are often targeted by fly fishers.
What are steelhead trout?
This bay, often mistaken for its own lake, is technically part of Lake Huron and contains the 30,000 Islands.
What is Georgian Bay?
What is the Longest Fish in Lake Superior?
What is the Northern Pike?
This New York city on Lake Ontario is known for its minor league baseball and connection to the Underground Railroad.
What is Rochester?
Lake Michigan has this type of unique current system, caused by wind and the Coriolis effect, which moves water in a circular pattern.
What is a gyre?
The 1960s collapse of this key fish species in Lake Erie was largely due to overfishing and invasive species.
What is lake trout?
During the Great Storm of 1913, this massive freighter sank in Lake Huron with all hands lost, one of the deadliest single-ship disasters in the lake's history.
What is the SS Regina?
Killed the entire crew of 32 men
This November 10 storm on Lake Superior sank a 729-foot freighter without sending a distress signal. What year did this occur?
What is 1975?
DAILY DOUBLE x2 POINTS
The Lake Ontario population of this endangered fish, which uses long barbels to find food, is protected by Canadian conservation laws.
What is lake sturgeon?
This invasive fish, known for its suction-cup mouth, devastated native fish populations in Lake Michigan in the 20th century.
What is the sea lamprey?
What condition causes Lake Erie to have algae blooms?
What are Eutrophic conditions?
(Overabundance of nutrients)
This little-known underwater ridge in Lake Huron was used by ancient hunters to herd caribou over 9,000 years ago.
What is the Alpena-Amberley Ridge?
What is the name of the largest ship to sink in Lake Superior?
What is the SS Edmund Fitzgerald?
Lake Ontario’s name comes from a Huron word meaning this.
What is “lake of shining waters”?