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Why does the Great Salt Lake have salt when none of the other lakes do?
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∙ 13y ago
The Great Salt Lake, unlike other lakes, has no outlet. Any water flowing into the lake only leaves by evaporation. Over time, the minute traces of salt in the incoming water get concentrated. The Dead Sea is another example of this.
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Name three large lakes other than the Great lakes in the United States?
Great Salt Lake, Lake Champlain, and Lake Oahe.
How do the Great Lakes and the Great Salt Lakes differ?
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.)
Are there lakes on Earth?
There are many lakes on earth. Some are The Great Lakes, Lake Victoria, and The Great Salt Lake.
What great lakes are in the Midwest?
Lake Erie, and Great Salt Lake
What TWO lakes have great in them?
The Great Salt Lake and the Great Prespa Lake.
The great salt lakes is where?
The Great Salt Lake is in northern Utah
Which Great Salt Lake is largest and which is smallest?
There is only one Great Salt Lake. Perhaps you meant to ask about the Great Lakes, which are not the same as the Great Salt Lake.
Were is salt water found?
The oceans, some lakes like The Great Salt Lake in Utah, and other places.
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.
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.
What is the largest lake in the US not including the Great Lakes?
Great Salt Lake in Utah
What great lakes are in the Midwest region?
lake erie, and Great Salt Lake
