what is the difference b/w a pond and a lake?
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Size. Lakes are bigger but there is no official \ndifference. It's arbitrary or subjective.
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Usually, when a pond freezes, it does not freeze totally solid.  Due to some rather nice properties of water, the pond will freeze from the top down leaving the fish with an area below the ice to swim around it.\n\nDue to fact that water expands when it freezes (because of the intermolecular forces at work), ice floats in liquid water.  Similarly, when pressure is applied to ice, it melts since it is trying to relieve the pressure on the system and this can be done by reducing the overall volume by melting.
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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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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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Generally it is the action of wind on the surface of the water. wave in a small lake are proportionally smaller the waves in a large lake or bay. Waves in the ocean have a lot longer for the effect to gain momentum.
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Lakes don't hold water... \nLakes happen because the water coming into the lakes through streams, springs, rivers and run-off is in balance with the amount of water being lost from the lake as rivers further downstream, seepage through the ground and evaporation of vapour into the air.\nYou dig a hole in the ground and fill it up, it will lose the water as it drains away, but if you put a hose into it with a steady supply of water, the water appears as if it is not going anywhere.. VOILA.. you have built a lake!!!\n\nAnd.. BY THE WAY.. WEIRD DUDE.. really.. go get a life.. This person asked a fair question and deserved a fair answer..
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Lake species of insects have larvae, as do many other animals. Lakes themselves do not have larvae, because lakes do not reproduce.
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fresh water --- the source is the snow melt from the Rocky Mountains.  The Hoover Dam impounds the Colorado River forming Lake Mead.  The "Lake" in Lake Mead is a misnomer --- it is technically a reservoir since it is formed by the impounding the Colorado River.  A true "lake" has no dam -- like Lake Tahoe or Crater Lake.
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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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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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There is no set definition for what is considered a pond versus a lake.\n\nHere is the united states government definition on this topic:\n\nThere are no official definitions for generic terms as applied to geographic names. Every organization will have a definition that is application driven, and no one office definition is accepted as official. The difference is thematic and beyond that it is highly perceptive. The difference between lake and pond is an example. We, at the USGS Geographic Names Office, in developing the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) database, have devised 63 broad categories of feature types with definitions solely to facilitate retrieval of entries with similar characteristics. So, we define lake as “natural body of inland water,” and not necessarily applicable to another’s needs. We have found 54 different generic terms that have characteristics similar to our definition of lake, but all are classified as lake. The only area of general agreement is that perceptibly, a pond is smaller than a lake, but even this is not always true.\n\nWe classify all “linear flowing bodies of water” as stream, a rather neutral term for our use. There are presently 121 generic terms that fit our broad category stream. As another example, many perceptibly insist that a creek must flow into a river. Such hierarchies do not exist in the Nation's namescape as evidenced by Little River flowing into Goose Creek nearby to our offices here in Northern Virginia. Many controversies exist, such as mountain/hill, which we call summit (as are 194 other generic terms applied to features with similar characteristics), and city/town that we classify as populated place, etc. It might be of interest that the British Ordnance Survey once defined a mountain as having 1,000 feet of elevation, and less was a hill, but this was abandoned sometime in the 1920's we believe. There was even a movie with this as its theme in the late 1990's - The Englishman That Went Up a Hill and Down a Mountain. The U.S. Board on Geographic Names once stated that the difference between a hill and a mountain in the U.S. was 1,000 feet of local relief, but even this was abandoned in the early 1970's. For more information contact the GNIS Manager.
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Eh? Two bodies of water.\nPacific on the west coast\nAtlantic on the east coast.\nBoth are oceans.
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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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One.  Bassenthwaite Lake is the only body of water in the Lake district with the word "Lake" in its name!\n\n(Well, I assumed it had to be a trick question!)
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Totally false.  Waves do occur in ponds and lakes.\n\nIn fact, any really experienced sailor can tell you that when the wind is blowing strongly, shallow waters are more dangerous thaan deep ociean waters.\n\nFifty foot waves can and do occur in the Great Lakes.  Many ships, boats, and lives have been lost, especially during November.\n\nThe big waves in the Great Lakes come crashing ashore, against piers, and against the shoreline ice barrier that forms during winter.\n\nThey are as spectacular as many typical ocean waves, but it is true that you can get even bigger waves from the ocean, such as the ones used by surfers in Hawaii.
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Water is a liquid and until the water get near freezing, water as it cools becomes more dense and sinks. Warmer water moves to the surface. For ice to form on a lake the temperate of all the water in the lake has to get below 39 degree F. \n\nLand on the surface may get colder but in temperate climates at certain depth the soil is always above freezing.
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Every minute 1/60 of the pond comes in the inlet pipe and 1/80 of the full pond goes out.  So you find the difference:  \n\n(1/60)x - (1/80)x = (8/480)x-(6/480)x=(2/480)x= 1/240x\n\nwhere x is the amount of water that would fill the pond\n\n1/240 of the amount of water to fill the pond comes in every minute.  It should take 240 minutes for the pond to fill up.