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Great Lakes
The Great Lakes are a group of five lakes (the largest in the world) located on the border of the northeastern US and Canada. The Great Lakes include: Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario.
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What river connects the great lakes with the Atlantic?
It is the St. Lawrence river that links The Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean
Who owns the great lakes America or Canada?
No one, but I guess you could say that the states where they are located have some rights over them. Michigan had to clean up Superior due to pollution.
Which is the easternmost Great Lake?
The most westerly of the Great Lakes is Lake Superior. Next, in order, are Lakes Michigan*, Huron*, Erie and Ontario, the latter being the easternmost.
* What are known as Lakes Michigan and Huron are, hydrologically speaking, really just one body of water.
Why were steel mills built along the great lakes?
Shipping goods, and major towns were located among the lake to, such as: Chicago, Duluth MN , Milwakee
Which manmade lake is the largest?
I believe the largest in North America is Lake Powell at 126 mi long in Arizona. It was created when the Glen Canyon Dam was built on the Colorado river. As for the next nine...? Lake Powell is actually the 2nd largest. The sizes of artificial lakes is measured by volume, and in the United States this is typically measured in acre-feet. The values reported here are for the "normal" volume for which the lake was designed. Of course, variations in climate will cause lakes to fluctuate over time, sometimes being larger or smaller than reported here. 1. Lake Mead (Arizona and Nevada) — 28.5 million acre-feet in volume 2. Lake Powell (Arizona and Utah) — 24.3 million acre-feet in volume 3. Lake Sakakawea (North Dakota) — 23.8 million acre-feet in volume 4. Lake Oahe (South Dakota) — 23.5 million acre-feet in volume 5. Fort Peck Lake (Montana) — 17.9 million acre-feet in volume (An acre-foot is the amount of water required to cover one acre of ground to a depth of one foot. It is 325,851 gallons, or 1,233,500 liters.)
What jobs and industries are in great lakes St Lawrence lowlands region?
To agriculture, manufacturing industries, transporation routes, development of cities. BAM.
The baltic sea and the great lakes are much lower or shallower than the sea and the wreckages are easier to see and get to.
What 5 provinces of Canada border the Great Lakes?
Only the province of Ontario borders on the Great Lakes. None of the other provinces or territories do so.
What we know as Lake Michigan is entirely within the USA, but hydrologically Lakes Michigan and Huron are actually just one body of water that has two large lobes. As such, there are really only four Great Lakes.
What are the 5 great lakes by alphabetical order?
Lake Erie,Lake Michigan,Lake Superior,Lake Ontario and Lake Huron
Does Michigan border more great lakes than Ohio?
Michigan is called the "great lake state" it borders all of the lakes except one. Ohio only borders one. HOME is all the names of the lakes H for lake Huron O for lake Ontario M for lake Michigan E for lake Erie which is the lake that boders Ohio
What river is the primary outlet for the great lakes?
The St. Lawrence Sea Way.
AnswerSt. Lawrence River
Great LakesWitch great lake lies enterialy in the US?
Lake Michigan is the Great Lake that lies entirely within the the United States.
Why the lake receives more water from sewage than natural water flow with pictures?
Water pollution is the contamination of water bodies (e.g. lakes, rivers, oceans, aquifers and groundwater). Water pollution occurs whenpollutants are discharged directly or indirectly into water bodies without adequate treatment to remove harmful compounds.
Water pollution affects plants and organisms living in these bodies of water. In almost all cases the effect is damaging not only to individual species and populations, but also to the natural biological communities.
How many lakes are in Florida?
Most of Florida's lakes are the result of sinkholes formed when underground limestone is dissolved by karst erosion. Others have formed through depressions in the ancient limestone bedrock. Still others are formed by man through building dams, wiers, residential communities, etc.
Maps showing the five great lakes and their names?
for the maps, look it up on google.com and click on images, it's way easier. But for the names:
H.O.M.E.S
Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior
What are the names of the great lakes in America?
The 5 Great Lakes are the following:
Lake Huron
Lake Ontario
Lake Michigan
Lake Erie
and Lake Superior.
and it helps if you just remember H.O.M.E.S
How many great lakes are they?
Currently there are 5 recognized Great Lakes; Huron, Ontario, Erie, Superior and Michigan. In actuality Lake Huron and Michigan are the same lake, but they were named separately. In recent times some people have tried to get Lake St. Clair and Lake Winnebago added.
What Great Lakes have Indian names?
Ontario is close to the Kanienke'ha name "Kaniatario" for this body.
Many of the bodies and courses of water were known by different names to the various nations who lived here on Turtle Island.
L. Erie was called Do'showeh Tecarneodi' that second word means "water/lake/river/sea at or there" this is in the Onondowahgah language.
We have no certain information for L. Huron but the Wendat word for lake is "Karegnondi" and this appeared for this L. on some early European maps
L. Michigan and L. Huron are hydrologically the same body of water so you might want to just take a "bye" on naming L. Michigan.
Gitcigoumi (sp?) is a native name for eiher L. M or L. S, I forget which.
Gotta run,
Why are the areas near the great lakes have so many cities?
People lives around the Great Lakes because they want some fresh wster there and it has lots of water.
Do ships in the general lakes need more or less ballast than ocean-going ships?
