identify the
special characteristics of water body
(river, lake) it's location and extent,
geographical and geological history on
the formation
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Answer:
lakes:
A lake is a water body surrounded by land on all sides. It is actually the opposite of an island, which is a piece of land surrounded by water on all sides.
Lakes can be salty or fresh water lakes. Salty lakes are due to a lot of evaporation taking place.
Some famous lakes are-Lake Superior, Caspian Sea, Lake Victoria, Lake Aral and the Dal Lake .
In fact the Caspian Sea is the world’s largest salt lake, it is so big that it is referred to as sea.
Lake Superior is the biggest fresh water lake.
The Dead Sea is a salt water lake.
It is said that nothing can survive in the Dead Sea because it is very salty.
river
Rivers are large streams that flow over the land. They are hence large flowing water bodies, they usually end up in an ocean or sea.
Rivers are fresh water bodies which generally originate in mountainous areas or elevated areas.
We have basically two kinds of rivers which are, the Snow-fed rivers and the second is the Rain-fed rivers.
Snow-fed rivers find their source in the snow capped mountains, where the snow melts, flowing down forming rivers, rain-fed rivers as the name suggests are formed in areas where it rains a lot giving rise to these rivers.
The place where a river starts its journey, is called the source and the place where it ends its journey , is called the mouth of a river.
Rivers again are very useful as we have seen in history,that most civilizations were formed near the banks of the rivers, like the Egyptian Civilization on the banks of the River Nile, the Indus Valley Civilization on the banks of the River Indus.
This is because the rivers deposit a lot of fertile soil called silt which is excellent for the growing of crops.
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