when is a lake not a pond?
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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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water in form of seas ,river,oceans,pond etc
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Wives in the sea occur when people's wives jump or fall into the water.\n\nYou usually don't get waves on a lake because the bodies of water are too small to be effected tidally and the water is not dense enough to swell with the wind - though on the Great Lakes, we DO get waves.
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do you have a "small" enough a pond to observe them at night?\nOr are you just asking this simply you could not see them on the lake at night when you were camping?
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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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Eh? Two bodies of water.\nPacific on the west coast\nAtlantic on the east coast.\nBoth are oceans.
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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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Yes, and Lake Michigan even qualifies as an "inland sea" because of its size.  Impress your teachers with that :)
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Most freshwater lakes have zones of temperature according to depth, known as stratification. Have you ever noticed how when you wade into a lake or dive down you encounter a layer of water that is much colder? This is stratification. Fresh water is densest, or heaviest, when it is 39 degrees Fahrenheit.  \n\nDuring late summer the air cools the surface water till it begins to sink, forcing lighter less dense and warmer water to the surface. If at some point all the water in the lake gets to 39 degrees, this temperature-induced mixing will stop, but wind can still force the water to mix. \n\nThis mixing action by wind and cooling is called turnover. \n\nDuring spring, the process reverses itself. Ice melts at the surface. When ice is on the surface of a lake the coldest water is often just under the ice. As this water warms up and becomes the same density and temperature as the deeper water it takes very little wind energy to cause the water to mix, or turnover. As the surface water warms even more, it becomes less dense than the deeper water and forms a stratified layer. After this stratification forms it will remain stratified.
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No monster in that lake....but a nice tourist attraction\n\nhttp://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/lesj/ness.htm
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a few counties from me is Lake Dexter, one of the largest man- made lakes in Wisconsin. It wasn't the largest when they built it, but it grew on its own and now you can't even see from one side to the other! i don't know if there's an exact size or anything because it's still growing. i'm sure if you look it up on-line, you'll find out more. all i know is that it's great for fishing, swimming, boating, and ice fishing.
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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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Flowing water does.  I don't know about standing water.
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wetlands already ARE a part of the environment! they are not something artificial that you need to blend in...
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Going by bodies of water that have "Lake" in the name, 25:\n\nAmos Lake\nAndover Lake \nBashan Lake\nBeseck Lake\nBlack Rock Lake\nCandlewood, Lake\nCedar Lake\nColebrook River Lake\nCrystal Lake\nGaillard, Lake\nGardner Lake\nHancock Brook Lake\nHop Brook Lake\nLillinonah, Lake\nLower Bolton Lake\nMansfield Hollow Lake\nNorthfield Brook Lake\nPine Acres Lake\nRogers Lake\nSaltonstall, Lake\nWaramaug, Lake \nWest Thompson Lake\nWinchester Lake\nWononskopomuc, Lake \nWyassup Lake
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river\n\nn : a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek); \n\nIf it didn't have water, I don't think it would be called a river.
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That depends on which one youre looking at. The Ogallala Aquafer, which is actually an underground lake, runs under several states. They can be massive, or just a small stream, it all depends on where you look.