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Temporary puddles pretending to be permanent, geologically speaking they're all just passing through.
means Inland bodies of standing water, larger than ponds, sitting in basins surrounded by land.
from From Old English 'lacu' meaning a stream or watercourse, reinforced by Old French 'lac,' both tracing back to Latin 'lacus' — a basin, tank, or pool. The same root pools up in 'lagoon' and the Greek 'lakkos' (a pit or pond), all cousins gathered around the idea of a hollow holding water.
- Lifespan
- Most fill with sediment and vanish within millennia
- Baikal
- Holds 20 percent of unfrozen freshwater on Earth
- Exploding lakes
- Some burp lethal CO2 clouds without warning
- Lake count
- Earth has over 117 million of them
- Pink ones
- Salt-loving microbes dye some lakes bubblegum pink
lake baikal — world's deepest lake at 1,642 meters, located in siberia, russia
lake superior — largest freshwater lake by surface area in north america, shared by us and canada
lake victoria — second largest freshwater lake in the world, shared by tanzania, uganda, and kenya
dead sea — lowest lake on earth at 1,410 feet below sea level, between israel and jordan