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The Great Lakes are a collection of five freshwater lakes, The Great Salt Lake is one saltwater lake. The Great Lakes are much larger than the Great Salt Lake. (The Great Lakes cover 80,545 square miles, the Great Salt Lake covers between 1,000 and 3,000 square miles, depending on the rainfall.)
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Why are lakes not salty?
Some lakes, such as the Great Salt Lake in Utah, are salty. The Great Lakes are freshwater because there is no source of salt to supply them.
The great salt lakes is where?
The Great Salt Lake is in northern Utah
Why is there no sodium chloride in lakes?
Some lakes contain a great amount of salt; salt without salt have a drain.
Are there lakes on Earth?
There are many lakes on earth. Some are The Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, and The Great Salt Lake.
Why does the Great Salt Lake have salt but the Great Lakes don't?
The Great Salt Lake has salt because it as no outlet, the salt of thousands of years has flowed into the lake. As the water evaporates, it leaves the salt there and it increases in concentration. The Great Lakes do not have salt because they are normal lakes, mostly fed by freshwater mountain streams and rivers, with an outlet to the oceans, so the salt does not increase in levels.
Are the Great Lakes seas and lakes?
As suggested by the name, the Great Lakes are all lakes - bodies of fresh water. Seas are bodies of salt water.
What TWO lakes have great in them?
The Great Salt Lake and the Great Prespa Lake.
What great lakes are in the Midwest?
Lake Erie, and Great Salt Lake
The plateau where you can find the Great Salt Lakes?
Just outside of Salt Lake.
What great lakes have salt water?
Chilika lake
What state is the Great Salt Lakes located?
Utah
What major lakes are salt water?
Major salt water lakes include: * Great Salt Lake in Utah, US * Dead Sea, Israel/Jordan
