Question

What is an important of lake

Answer 1

Answer:

1. Means of Communication: Large lakes like the Great Lakes of North America provide a cheap and convenient form of transport for heavy and bulky goods such as coal, iron, machinery, grains and timber.
2. Economic and Industrial Development: Early settle­ments and town sites were very much influenced by the presence of lakes. Lakes are an even more decisive factor when they are drained by large rivers with outlets to the sea. The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence waterways were responsible for the develop­ment of the interior wheat farms and lakeside industries.
3. Water Storage: Lakes of either natural or ar­tificial origin are vital sources of domestic water supply to surrounding towns and industrial cities. For example in Britain Lake Thirlmere supplies water to Manchester, Loch Katrine to Glasgow, Lake Vyrnwy (in Wales) to Liverpool.
4. Agricultural Purposes: Lakes will eventually be eliminated, and when they dry up, their former beds are covered with thick layers of fertile alluvium. They make excellent agricultural land like the fertile Vale of Pickering in Yorkshire, or the rich Red River Valley of Canada which was in fact the former site of Lake Agassiz.
5. Source of Food: Many large lakes have important supplies of protein food in the form of freshwater fish. Sturgeon is commercially caught in the Caspian Sea, salmon and sea trout in the Great Lakes, and in Tonle Sap in Cambodia, fishing is a leading occupation. Amateur fishermen have found fishing in lakes and rivers a most rewarding pastime.

Answer 2

Explanation:

A lake is a body of water that is surrounded by land. There are millions of lakes in the world. They are found on every continent and in every kind of environment—in mountains and deserts, on plains, and near seashores. Lakes vary greatly in size.