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a puddle with ambition and a flair for the dramatic disappearance.
means A large inland body of standing water, surrounded by land and usually fed and drained by rivers or streams.
from From Old French 'lac' and directly from Latin 'lacus' — a basin, pond, or reservoir. The same Latin root gives us 'lagoon' (via Italian 'laguna'), and it's a likely cousin of the Greek 'lakkos,' a pit or pond. There's also an Old English word 'lacu' meaning stream or watercourse, so two streams quietly fed into the modern word.
- liquid eyeball
- Russia's Lake Baikal holds 20% of Earth's fresh water
- explosive
- Cameroon's Lake Nyos suffocated 1,700 people overnight in 1986
- upside down
- Some lakes flip seasonally, dragging deep water to the surface
- temporary by nature
- Most lakes vanish geologically within thousands of years
lake baikal — world's deepest lake at 1,642 meters, contains 23% of earth's fresh water
lake superior — largest freshwater lake by surface area in north america, 82,100 km²
lake victoria — second largest freshwater lake by surface area, shared by tanzania, uganda, kenya
dead sea — lowest lake on earth at 430.5 meters below sea level, 34.2% salinity