what is the difference between a lake a mere and a water?
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A mere is a lake which is broader than in relation to its depth!!  A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. And a water is a body of water!!
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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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Click on the lake name.
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water in form of seas ,river,oceans,pond etc
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the Caspian Sea which is, in fact, a lake.\nreferred to as a sea, because of it's size (largest lake in the world) and also because it is saltwater and not a freshwater lake.
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water on the ground, in oceans, lakes, etc. has enough energy to evaporate a little bit (all liquids have a "vapor pressure," which is higher the hotter it is).  eventually, there is too much water in the air at whatever air temperature it is, so the water re-liquifies and falls.  this can commonly happen when a warm front (warm air holds lots of water) is cooled by a cold front.
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Ice is less compact or less dense than liquid water.
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wind is the movement of air\njust like waves are the movement of water
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a) a lower freezing point than pure water
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Water when frozen, expands.  it is less dense. so it floats on water which is more dense.
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rocks : see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocks\nlakes : see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakes
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a tributary or a distub thingy
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There is a possibility that the difference is that one is under water (the ocean trench) and one isn't (the rift valley).  I've never heard of a "rift valley" being under water.
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Size. Lakes are bigger but there is no official \ndifference. It's arbitrary or subjective.
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Lots of reasons.  It depends on the air temperature and moisture content, the area that the water evaporates from, local geography (like mountains and lakes) as well as the composition of the cloud (water or ice crystals).
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A water divide (also known in Commonwealth usage as a watershed) is the separation between neighbouring drainage basins, and lies along topographical peaks and ridges. Water divides are important geographical, and often also political, boundaries. A water divide is also sometimes called a water parting or a height of land (in North America, especially Canada).
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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.