Mediterranean Sea Quiz: questions and answers

1. Which ocean is the Mediterranean Sea connected to?

Indian Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

2. What is the Mediterranean Sea sometimes called in oceanography?

African Sea

Eurafrican Mediterranean Sea

European Sea

3. Which of these countries are surrounded by the Mediterranean Sea in a clockwise direction?

Montenegro

Bulgaria

Turkey

4. How the Maltese president described the Mediterranean Sea in 2013?

As a cemetery

As a dangerous sea

As a big hole

5. How many deep basins is the sea divided into?

1 deep basins

2 deep basins

3 deep basins

6. What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea by area?

Majorca

Sicily

Rhodes

7. Which of these countries have a coastline on the Mediterranean Sea?

Algeria

Israel

Portugal

8. Which canal is the first salt-water passage between the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea?

Rhine-Main-Danube Canal

Baltic Sea Canal

Suez Canal

9. By 2100 the overall level of the Mediterranean could rise between 3 to 61 cm, the parts of which country can be submerged?

Italy

Spain

Malta

10. What is the name of the phenomenon when Red Sea species invade the Mediterranean?

Lessepsian migration

Red Sea migration

The attack of the Mediterranean

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