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Because lakes consist of less pollution and purer water than oceans, thus, letting the water filter through into the air more quickly.
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How many times more carbon is in the oceans than in the atmosphere?
The oceans contain about 50 times more carbon dioxide (CO2) than the atmosphere and 19 times more than the land biosphere.
How did the desert soil get salty?
During years of heavy rainfall in the distant past, enough water accumulated in basins found throughout the Andes to create lakes. Some of the lakes got their water from melting glaciers at the end of the last ice age. But in some lakes in the Andes mountains, such as Atacama, more water is lost through evaporation than is replaced by rainfall so the lakes are drying up. As the water evaporates, the mineral salts in the water become more concentrated, creating very salty water.
What is More than half of Earth is covered by?
Salt water, in the oceans. Jim B in Toronto.
Which process of the water cycle puts the water vapor into the air from lakes or ocean?
rain, than sits, than evaberate and does the same thing over and over again
How does precipitation eventually return to the oceans?
Precipitation. Continued cooling of the water vapor in the clouds causes water droplets to grow. Eventually, droplets join other droplets and form drops too heavy to stay in the clouds. The heavy droplets begin to fall as rain. The movement of raindrops from the atmosphere to the Earth is precipitation. Snow may form instead of raindrops if the water vapor condenses below the freezing point.Some areas lose more water to evaporation than they gain as precipitation. Other locations receive more precipitation than they lose to evaporation. Whatever the form of precipitation, water lost by evaporation over the entire surface of the Earth equals the amount of water falling as precipitation.
Why were trips on seas and oceans more dangerous than trips on rivers and lakes?
because sea and oceans are much bigger
What is a body of water which has no outlet other than evaporation is bound?
Usually fresh water lakes and river utilize evaporation as primarily the method of water and energy transfer. In contrast, salt water oceans and seas have many ways to transfer water and energy other than evaporation.
Why are lakes and rivers more sensitive to pollution than oceans?
because its a doo doo
Why do more organisms live in oceans than in freshwater lakes and rivers?
organisms in fresh water had to adapt. they first lived in the oceans.
Do lakes and streams hold more than two thirds of earths freshwater?
oceans freshwater and lakes and streams cover 2/3 of earth
What color probably is found on world map more than any other?
green... because it represents land and there is more land than lakes and oceans
There is more water found in lakes and rivers than in ground water?
no, most water is found in oceans, then polar ice caps, then glaciers, then ground water, THEN lakes and rivers
What is the different between lakes oceans seas and rivers?
Lakes and rivers are smaller bodies of water than oceans and seas. Oceans are the biggest bodies of water in the world, and seas should be bigger than lakes and rivers. Rivers are usually very long, but not too wide, such as the Mississippi River. Lakes are like ponds, except that lakes are larger in size than a pond. So basically, the difference between lakes and rivers and seas and oceans is that lakes and rivers are smaller than oceans and seas.
What is larger the ocean or the lake and why?
Oceans are larger than lakes; that is how the words are defined.
What color is probably found on a globe more than any other color and why?
Blue, Blue stands for water on a map and on the Earth there is more oceans, rivers, lakes, creeks and streams than land.
Why are temperature near the Great Lakes cooler in the summer than temperature a few miles away?
The lakes have a high specific heat capacity.Answer:Air passing over the lakes becomes moister from evaporation. This evaporation of water requires heat which is absorbed from the air. As a consequence the air becomes cooler.
Why are temperatures near the Great Lakes cooler in the summer than temperatures a few miles away?
The lakes have a high specific heat capacity.Answer:Air passing over the lakes becomes moister from evaporation. This evaporation of water requires heat which is absorbed from the air. As a consequence the air becomes cooler.
