The Suez Canal

The Suez Canal connects the Red Sea with the:

• Atlantic Ocean

• Mediterranean Sea

• Gulf of Suez

The Suez Canal, which is twice the length of the Panama Canal, measures about how many miles from north to south?

• 50

• 90

• 150

The canal has no locks because:

• it is short in length

• it is shallow and narrow

• they didn't need to change the water level in the channel.

Supertankers filled with petroleum travel through the canal in what direction?

• north

• south

• southeast

The Suez Canal makes the water route from Great Britain to India shorter by how many miles?

• 12,000 miles

• 7,000 miles

• 5,000 miles

• Can not answer question with information provided

What product accounts for most of the shipments through the canal?

• oil

• petroleum

• all of the choices are correct

Ships traveling in opposite directions can pass each other only in the lakes area and in what man-made channel?

• Suez Canal By-Pass

• Lake Timsah

• Port Said

• Gulf of Suez

The city at the northern end of the waterway is named after what man?

• Ferdinand de Lesseps

• Mohammed Said

• Stephen Suez

A trip through the canal, which takes about 11-14 hours, begins or ends at way city in the south?

• Ismailia

• Port Said

• Lake Timsah

• Suez

The Suez Canal

• was planned by the Convention at Constantinople

• became the world's busiest inter ocean water route int he late 1960's

• is important in war as well as in peace