Q. Consider the following statements regarding the North American Great Lakes:
1.The geographical sequencing of the Great Lakes arranged from west to east is Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario.
2.The volumetric and surface area sorting of these lakes from largest to smallest is Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario.
3.Lake Superior holds the geographic record as the largest continuous freshwater lake by surface area in the world.
4.Lake Huron holds the record as the largest lake located within the sovereign geographic borders of a single nation.
Which of the statements given above are correct?
Answer: A
Notes:
Explanation:
- Statement 1 is correct: Mapped spatially from West to East, the sequential line-up is exactly Superior Michigan Huron Erie
- Statement 2 is correct: Measured by total surface area size, the downward hierarchy runs exactly Superior Huron Michigan Erie
- Statement 3 is correct: Lake Superior (~82,100 sq km) is the largest freshwater lake on Earth by surface area (excluding the brackish/saline Caspian Sea).
- Statement 4 is incorrect: Lake Michigan is the only one of the five Great Lakes that lies entirely inside the United States. Lake Huron is shared across the international border with Canada.
