When does a Pond become a Lake.  It is not size as I know of small ponds,large Lakes and vise versa?
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A pond is usually smaller than a lake. A pond usually has mostly still water, while a lake may have currents. Ponds are overall much more shallow than lakes, which can be very deep. Typically, a pond has no surface outflow draining off water and ponds are often spring-fed. A lake is usually fed by several streams. The water temperature of a pond is usually the same throughout, while a lake may have layers of different temperatures in its depths. Lastly, ponds have more plant life than lakes. Plants may completely cover a pond, but lakes only have plants on the edges.
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The freshwater biome consists of freshwater lakes, ponds, streams, springs, and rivers. These are found all over the world. Many are beautifully landscaped, but some are just downright ugly! Most all bodies of freshwater are enclosed by land, but some rivers and streams empty into the oceans at places called estuaries. Lakes and ponds are divided into three zones. The littoral zone is near the shore where plants and animals are abundant. The next zone is the limnetic zone, which is the open water next to shore, where plankton dominate the water. The last zone is the deep part of the lake/pond called the profundal zone. This is where organisms called heterotrophs, which eat dead organisms that float down from the surface. Temperatures vary in summer from 22*C – 4*C and in winter from 4*C – 0*C. In the spring and fall, the top and bottom layers mix and then the average temperature is 4*C. Streams and rivers are bodies of moving water flowing in one direction. They can be found anywhere, but their exact origin is not really known. They may start out as lakes, ponds, springs, or even melted snow. The characteristics change from the source to the mouth. The source is cooler than the mouth. The water is clearer than of lakes and ponds, and has higher oxygen levels. Freshwater animals such as trout, snails, crabs, and clams along with heterotrophs roam the waters. In the middle part of the stream/river, the width increases, it is less shaded, and more organisms including green plants and algae are found here. Towards the mouth, the water becomes murky and light can penetrate only so far. Fish that don’t loss as much oxygen as other fish, such as catfish and carp, live here. The freshwater biome is home to many beautiful and interesting fauna and flora.
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Both r water bodies, But the name differs due to the area and the depth of water
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Some rivers dont they can finish in a lake thats inland. Water just flows downhill till its at the lowest level it can find which is usually the sea
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It is not a ocean or sea, which are salted.\n\nA lake is non salted water, but the word fresh might be miss leading. Lake Superior's "fresh" water that is not so fresh, but not salted.
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Pond\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\n\nA pond is typically a body of water smaller than a lake. However the difference between a pond and an artificial lake is subjective. They are both formed by ponding water, either by excavating a hollow in which water may lie or by forming a dam to impound the water in a valley. The techniques may be combined to form a reservoir in flat country by enclosing an area with an embankment. Such a pond, unless very small, is usually called a reservoir. In some cultures, the meaning has been extended to include small bodies of water impounded naturally. (Oxford English Dictionary)\n\nScientifically, a pond is any body of water where light is found in the entire body of water. A lake is any body of water that has a profundal zone; there is as limit of effective light penetration for organisms. Hence, Lake Superior can theoretically be defined as Pond Superior because light does extend to the bottom of the ocean.\n\n\nNomenclature\nIn origin, pond is a variant form of the word pound, meaning a confining enclosure. As straying cattle are enclosed in a pound so water is enclosed in a pond. In earlier times, the uses of ponds were utilitarian; as stew ponds, mill ponds and so on. In medieval and baroque gardens, artificial bodies of water were called ponds or basins. As landowners began to decorate their parks with naturalistic bodies of water, they chose to distance their new, generally larger, decorative ponds from the prosaic and called them lakes. In this seems to lie the origin of the size distinction between lake and pond.\n\nAlso, where minerals such as gravel were extracted, the remaining hole might fill with water which, in time came to look natural. In some areas, such as Surrey such pools were called ponds. (An exalple is Frensham Ponds, though even in Wimbledon, which was in Surrey, such pools are meres.) This association of the pond name with a natural-seeming pool seems to have been carried abroad with emigrants so that in places like the United States, natural pools are often called ponds. Much of this article is written on the basis of this American view.\n\nA pond is characterized as being a small body of water that is shallow enough for sunlight to reach the bottom, permitting the growth of rooted plants at its deepest point. Seldom do ponds reach more that 3.6-4.5 meters (12 to 15 feet) in depth.\n\nPond usually describes small bodies of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross. Another definition is that a pond is a body of water where even its deepest areas are reached by sunlight or where a human can walk across the entire body of water without being submerged. In some dialects of English, pond normally refers to small artificially created bodies of water.\n\nThough not generally accepted, some regions of the United States define a pond as a body of water with a surface area of less than 10 acres (40,000 m²).\n\nRegional differences include the use of the word pond in New England, and Maine in particular, for relatively large waterbodies. For example, Great Pond, Maine, is over 10 square miles in area.\n\nIn areas which were covered by glaciers in the past, some ponds were created when the glaciers retreated. These ponds are knowns as kettle ponds . Walden Pond in Concord, Massachusetts is a well known example. Kettle ponds are usually quite deep and clean because they are fed by underground aquifers rather than streams.\n\nAnother suggested difference between ponds and lakes is that lakes are fed by rivers, creeks, and/or springs, while ponds are usually the result of rain runoff, modest springs, or perhaps a very small stream. Also, lakes tend to have much more irregular shorelines, with coves and so forth, while ponds tend to allow one to take them all in visually from a single location. Or, if the lake does have regular shorelines, then it tends to at the same time be a substantial body of water (e.g., Lake Okechobee). Lastly, while ponds may a
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First off, how big is the lake and what do you mean explode? How bout a square mile and explode means that the water justs bursts right out. Well, electricity isn't really matter, it's a current. So any electricity you put into the lake would leave immediately. Thus, you would have to put a tremendous amount of power all at once. Frankly, I don't think you could do it, because we can't even produce as much electricity as is in a lightning bolt in one second. A lightning strike would only affect one small section of the lake. Thus it would take multiple lightning strikes right next to each other.
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The waves taht you see created on a larger body of water such as a lake or an ocean are largely created as a result of wind acting upon the surface of the water.   There are three components that determine how big the waves become, they are fetch, intensity and duration.\n  Fetch is the available surface area presented to the wind.  A larger body of water will have a larger fetch area, allowing for the wind to develop its effects on the surface.  Thus a larger body of water will typically have larger waves.\n  Intensity is how hard the wind is blowing.  Stronger winds make bigger waves.\n  Duration is how long the wind has been acting on the water's surface.  A quick breeze may cause the surface to ripple, but it takes time and a more prolonged wind to start developing the larger waves that most people are accustomed to seeing on the ocean.\n\nSo, with a river, there are indeed waves, but just not as large as a big lake or the ocean because there just isn't enough fetch to build big waves.  One some large rivers (such as the Mississippi) there are wider areas, sometimes more than a mile wide.  In these sections of a river, it is not uncommon to get waves up to several feet in height on a windy day.
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An ocean is a global interconnected body of salt water.\n\nA sea is a large expanse of saline water connected to an ocean.\n\nA lake is a body of water surrounded by land that is either freshwater or salt water.  The majority of lakes are freshwater.
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Stream or lake?  The streams are muddy right now but the lake fish are going nuts right now.  Rainbows get really aggressive just after ice-off.  I would try lakes around Walden or Kremling.
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i would think that a brook was a little bigger in size than a creek
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Connecticut has about 6,000 lakes and ponds (according to Encarta), and the largest natural lake is Bantam Lake, at 2 sq. mi. Encarta wasn't much help)\n\nUsing Yahoo! Maps, i decides to simply measure Crystal Lake. Along its longest distance (roughly from the SE corner of the lake to the northwest inlet), it is slightly less than 5,000 feet across. In the perpendicular direction, it is about 3,000 feet across.
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Rivers & streams are parts of drainage basins (aka watersheds). This means that they drain most of the surface water from an area.\n\nWhen it rains very heavily, it runs off & goes into the rivers & streams b/c they are lower in elevation. This is called surface runoff.\n\nRivers are only capable of handling a certain amount of water at a time. When it reaches flood stage it will overflow it's banks.\n\nAlthough it is possible for a lake to flood, more than likely it will not. It is less likely to get all the surface runoff from the surrounding area.\n\nOceans are not going to flood unless sea level rises. There is no real "normal" flood stage for oceans. Over time they transgress & regress in response to climate change. Water is constantly being evaporated from the oceans as well.\n\nMost of our precipitation comes from water vapor that was evaporated from the oceans. This is simply b/c oceans cover the majority of the planet.\n\nHope this helps.
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Yes, a pond is great.... Put Koi fish in it. You will have a little bit of paradise.... I built a pond and everyone loves it!
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Typically, headwaters only experience recharge, but a local depression in the land surface can create a window into the groundwater, usually in the form of a lake or swamp.  Water here can flow downstream, and thus can add to discharge.
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Freshwater biomes include lakes, rivers, streams, and ponds.  The climate depends on where the biome is - a lake in Northern Canada is very different from a lake in Africa.   \n\nI hope these links help.
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Rivers empty into major bodies of water...tributaries empty into rivers