Red Sea

The Red Sea is a strategically important waterway due to its connection to which major body of water through the Suez Canal, facilitating maritime traffic between Europe and Asia?

a) Indian Ocean or b) Mediterranean Sea

Answer: b) Mediterranean Sea

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Red Sea:

• The Red Sea is a narrow body of water that stretches from Suez, Egypt, in the northwest to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in the southeast, connecting to the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea.
• The sea separates the coasts of Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea to the west from those of Saudi Arabia and Yemen to the east.
• The Red Sea holds some of the world’s hottest and saltiest seawater.
• It is a highly important and heavily traveled waterway due to its connection to the Mediterranean Sea through the Suez Canal, facilitating maritime traffic between Europe and Asia.
• The name “Red Sea” originates from the variations in its water color.
  • Typically, the Red Sea appears as a vibrant blue-green.
  • However, periodic blooms of the Trichodesmium erythraeum algae, upon dying off, can cause the sea to take on a reddish-brown colour.

It lies in a fault depression that separates two great blocks of Earth’s Crust–Arabia and NorthAfrica.