How Well Do You Really Know the Great Lakes?

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Which of these states does not touch a Great Lake?
Iowa
WorldAtlas

Which is the only Great Lake that lies entirely inside the United States?
Lake Michigan
Britannica

What scooped out the basins the Great Lakes sit in?
Moving ice
Britannica

Which Great Lake holds more than half the water in the whole system?
Lake Superior
US EPA

Which Great Lake is the shallowest?
Lake Erie
US EPA

How much fresh water surface do the Great Lakes cover between them?
About 94,250 square miles
Britannica

Which lake was briefly made the sixth Great Lake in 1998?
Lake Champlain
Lake Champlain Committee

Niagara Falls empties into which Great Lake?
Lake Ontario
WorldAtlas

The Straits of Mackinac connect which two Great Lakes?
Michigan and Huron
WorldAtlas

Which state has the oldest continuously operating lighthouse on the Great Lakes?
Ohio
Marblehead Light

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