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A lake is an inland body of standing water of considerable size. Lake Superior, one of the Great Lakes, is the largest freshwater lake in the world.
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What is the body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water called?
The body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water is called an estuary. This commonly an enclosed body of water.
Is an estuary salt or fresh water?
Both salt and fresh water flow into one. The definition is: A semi-enclosed coastal body of water, which has a free connection with the open sea. So it would be salt water.
Contrast salt water and fresh water?
Fresh and salt water are very different for one key reason, fresh water doesn't contain salt and salt water obviously does. There are different flora and fauna in fresh and salt water for this reason.
Is the water in the Sacramento salt water or fresh water?
There was salt water but they have replaced it with fresh water.
Does salt water float over fresh water?
no< fresh water will become mixed with the salt water
What does a lake lake look like?
a large inland body of fresh water or salt water.
What is a fresh water loch?
A fresh water loch is a significant body of water, generally inland, which is fresh - as opposed to salt - water. A loch is the Scottish term for lake.
What is a description of brackish water?
Brackish water is a mixture of fresh and salt water. Rivers coming from inland headed to the ocean are fresh, then as they get closer to the salt water influences, the waters are brackish and then salt as you get closer to the ocean.
What is the body of freshwater that is surrounded by land but is bigger than a pond?
A large inland body of water is called a lake.
What is the inland body of salt water in western washington?
Puget Sound
The inland body of salt water in the western Washington?
Puget Sound
What is the largest inland body of salt water in the Western Hemisphere?
Utah
Why can a person not float in fresh water but can in salt water what does that tell us about the density of salt water?
Salt water has higher density than the body of a person who floats on it, but the person's body may sink in less dense fresh water.
Is salty water more dense that salty water?
Salt water is more dense than fresh water. A ship would float higher at sea, and lower on a fresh water inland lake.
What is the body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water called?
The body of water where fresh water from a river mixes with salt water is called an estuary. This commonly an enclosed body of water.
Is the ocean in maine fresh water?
All oceans are salt water as well as the various seas. Only lakes and streams are fresh water. Ground water is mostly fresh, but sometimes it is salt water. (Some interesting and peculiar things happen when an inland lake is isolated with no outlet to the ocean, but that is a special case.)
Since salt water is denser than fresh water does swimming in fresh water sap body heat faster?
No.
