Atlantis is a legendary city believed to have sunk beneath which body of water?

• A. Sea
• B. River
• C. Lake
• D. Ocean

Answer: (A)

Where Atlantis is said to have sunk in the legend. In classical accounts, Atlantis lies beyond the Pillars of Hercules in a distant western sea, and the tale ends with it going down beneath the sea. That description fits the option representing a sea, since the story portrays the city being swallowed by a large body of saltwater. The other water bodies don’t fit because a river or lake would imply a freshwater, contained body of water, which the myth does not describe for Atlantis. Although some retellings refer to a vast ocean, the phrasing in many tellings uses sea, making it the best match for this question.