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seaways straits and passages
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| flows between australia and tasmania | bass strait |
| divides russia and alaska; connects the ___ sea and the arctic ocean | bering strait |
| separates turkey in asia from turkey in europe; connects the marmara and black seas | bosporus |
| between new zealand's main islands | cook strait |
| connects the mediterranean and the sea of marmara | dardanelles (hellespont) |
| known to the french as la manche (the sleeve); lies between england and france; principal islands are isle of wight and channel islands | english channel |
| connects the mediterranean with the atlantic, between africa and europe | strait of gibraltar |
| lies between arabia and iran; links persian gulf with the arabian sea | strait of hormuz |
| arm of the pacific between northwestern washington and south vancouver island; links the pacific with the strait of georgia and the puget sound | strait of juan de fuca |
| links the sea of azov and the black sea | kerch strait |
| joins lakes michigan and huron | mackinac |
| lies between the south american mainland and tierra del fuego | magellan strait |
| runs between sumatra and malaysia | strait of malacca |
| runs between italy and sicily, home of scylla and charybdis | strait of messina |
| was the long-sought route north of america to asia | northwest passage |
| connects the atlantic and pacific oceans across central america | panama canal |
| passes between the red and mediterranean seas in egypt | suez canal |
| passes between java and sumatra | sunda strait |