Pacific
The Pacific covers more area than all Earth's land combined. This topic is part of Oceans within Geography. This page currently draws on 139 supporting questions, with answers and bonus facts available below.
Pacific trivia questions
Which ocean covers more surface area than any other ocean on Earth?
Answer: Pacific Ocean
Bonus fact: The Pacific covers more area than all Earth's land combined.
The Pacific Ocean lies between Asia and Australia on one side and what continents on the other?
Answer: North and South America
Bonus fact: The Americas form the Pacific's eastern boundary.
What deep trench in the western Pacific contains the deepest known point in Earth's oceans?
Answer: Mariana Trench
Bonus fact: Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench is the deepest known ocean point.
Which canal uses locks to raise and lower ships between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans?
Answer: Panama Canal
Bonus fact: The Panama Canal uses lock systems because its route crosses terrain above sea level.
What ocean-atmosphere pattern in the tropical Pacific can significantly alter weather around the world every few years?
Answer: El Niño-Southern Oscillation
Bonus fact: ENSO alternates between El Niño and La Niña conditions and affects rainfall and temperature patterns globally.
In the Atlantic and eastern North Pacific, a tropical cyclone becomes a hurricane when sustained winds reach at least what speed?
Answer: 74 mph
Bonus fact: The hurricane threshold is 74 miles per hour, or 119 kilometers per hour.
What is a tropical cyclone called in the western North Pacific?
Answer: Typhoon
Bonus fact: Typhoon, hurricane, and cyclone are regional names for similar tropical systems.
Colombia has coastlines on the Pacific Ocean and what sea?
Answer: Caribbean Sea
Bonus fact: It is the only South American country with both Pacific and Caribbean coasts.
Honduras has coastline on the Caribbean Sea and which small Pacific gulf?
Answer: Gulf of Fonseca
Bonus fact: The Gulf of Fonseca provides Honduras limited Pacific access.
Palau is part of which broad Pacific region?
Answer: Micronesia
Bonus fact: Palau is generally grouped within Micronesia.
Samoa is part of which broad Pacific cultural region?
Answer: Polynesia
Bonus fact: Polynesia includes Samoa, Tonga, and many central and eastern Pacific islands.
Tonga is unusual in the Pacific because it was never formally what?
Answer: Colonized by a foreign power
Bonus fact: Tonga retained Indigenous monarchy and formal sovereignty.