Presque Isle State Park curls into Lake Erie at which city?
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Answer: Erie, Pennsylvania
Presque Isle is a sandy peninsula that shelters the harbor of Erie, Pennsylvania.
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Islands, coast and weather
Islands, points, peninsulas, lake-effect snow and water that sloshes.
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The southernmost point of mainland Canada is on Lake Erie. What is it called?
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Answer: Point Pelee
Point Pelee, a national park on a peninsula in Ontario, is the southern tip of Canada's mainland.
For heavy lake-effect snow, cold air needs to travel at least about how far over open water?
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Answer: About 60 miles
Cold air crossing roughly 60 miles or more of unfrozen lake picks up enough moisture to drop heavy snow downwind.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Erie
What is the largest island in Lake Erie?
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Answer: Pelee Island
Pelee Island, in Ontario, is the largest of Lake Erie's islands.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Erie
Cedar Point amusement park sits on a peninsula at which city?
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Answer: Sandusky
Cedar Point fills a peninsula that juts into Lake Erie at Sandusky, Ohio.
Source: Wikipedia: Cedar Point
Lake Erie takes its name from the Erie people. Their name is often traced to an Iroquoian word meaning what?
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Answer: Long tail
The name is usually traced to "erielhonan", long tail. Some sources suggest a word for cherry tree instead.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Erie
Which of these states does NOT touch Lake Erie?
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Answer: Indiana
Lake Erie borders Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and the province of Ontario. Indiana is on Lake Michigan.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Erie
Lake Erie is known for "seiches". What is a seiche?
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Answer: Water sloshing from one end of the lake to the other
A seiche is a standing wave: strong wind piles water up at one end of the lake, and it rocks back and forth when the wind drops.
Source: NOAA: What is a seiche?
Put-in-Bay, home of Perry's Victory memorial, is on which island?
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Answer: South Bass Island
The village of Put-in-Bay and the memorial are on South Bass Island.
Source: National Park Service: Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial
Kelleys Island is famous for what?
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Answer: Glacial grooves carved into limestone
Its glacial grooves, scraped by ice more than 14,000 years ago, are called the largest easily accessible grooves in the world.
Counting its islands, about how many miles of Lake Erie coast does Ohio have?
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Answer: About 312 miles
Ohio's Lake Erie coast, mainland and islands together, is usually given as about 312 miles.
Source: Ohio EMA: State hazard mitigation plan, coastal erosion (2019)
Pelee Island belongs to which country?
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Answer: Canada
Pelee Island is part of Ontario, Canada, a short way north of the Ohio islands.
Source: Wikipedia: Pelee Island
Which Great Lake freezes over first and most often?
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Answer: Lake Erie
Being the shallowest, Lake Erie loses its heat fastest. Ice usually starts in late November.
Source: Wikipedia: Lake Erie
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