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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 eight states border the five great lakes?

There are eight states that border the Great Lakes : Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New York.

Minnesota - western Lake Superior

Wisconsin - western Lake Superior, western Lake Michigan

Illinois - southern Lake Michigan

Indiana - southern Lake Michigan

Michigan - lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, and Erie

Ohio - southern Lake Erie

Pennsylvania - southern Lake Erie

New York - southern Lake Erie, southern Lake Ontario

What state touches 4 great lakes?

Lake Michigan touches Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and of course, Michigan.

How do ships get from the great lakes to the Atlantic ocean?

Yes! All of the great lakes are interconnected. Between L.Erie and L.Ontario is a river that has Niagara falls, but there is a lock system that goes around the falls that the ships use to navigate. This is true for rivers between the other great lakes.

How many named lakes are in Canada?

there are about 2 million small fresh water lakes in canada.

Source:My grade 9 social studies teacher.

What great geological event explains the formation of the Great Lakes the St Lawrence River system the Columbia-Snake River system and Great Salt Lake?

During the last ice age, the great weight of the glaciers covering what is now The Great Lakes area actually lowered the land. It has been slowly rising up again since all the glaciers melted.

The melting of the glaciers provided tremendous amounts of water that scoured out pathways to the Pacific. They also filled the Great Lakes and overflowed to make rivers to the Atlantic.

The water flow created a river to The Great Salt Lake but not enough water enters it now to let it overflow to the sea. So the water just evaporates and keeps getting saltier.

What is the wildlife in the St-Lawrence Lowlands and Great Lakes Region?

I think that there is lots of animals living there!I want to learn more about it!I am benafsha niaz.I am working on a project at PringleCreek Public School.My teacher Mrs.Giddings is helping me with Amanda marsellus.Thank you!

There are many animals living in the St. Lawrence Lowlands. They mostly live in the forest. For example, the red spotted lizard lives in the St. Lawrence Lowlands but are almost extinced because their home is being destroyed.

Where is Great Lakes and st Lawrence lowlands?

They are separated by a small part of the Canadian Shield.

What products or resources are transported through the great lakes?

oil and logs Canada is one of the most leading industry's of oil and forestry

What is the only great lake that is completely with the US?

Lake Michigain

The only Great Lake that is completely in the United States is Lake Michigain.

What are the problems in the great lakes that deal with pollution?

. Zebra Mussels, which are a small striped freshwater mussel from NE Europe, have been steadily invading America's rivers and lakes. They can attach themselves to any surface which includes water pipes; water pipes can easily be clogged up and with a couple hundred Zebra Mussels which can cause a big problem. Zebra Mussels lay anywhere from 30,000 to 1 million eggs each year, that's a lot of Zebra Mussels! Zebra Mussels deposit pollutants as pseudo feces, pollutants of mucous mixed with particulate matter that they filter from the water. Scavenging animals that eat the pseudo feces may pass these pollutants up the food chain.

What countries do the great lakes border?

the border between Canada & the usa runs thru the middle of lake superior

so these countries include their respective portions of the lake

but the lakeshore is not the border

& countries are more than just their dry land

so technically no countries actually border this lake

it is possible for countries to border lakes

but such is not the case in this example

Name Great Lakes border two regions and two countries?

The North-Central and Northeast are the two regions while the United States and Canada are the two countries.

What ship sunk in the great lakes?

There have been many shipwrecks on the Great Lakes. Probably the best known is the Edmund Fitzgerald; which sank on November 10, 1975 with no survivors of its 29 man crew. the Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior.

Another was the collision between the Comet and the Manitoba on August 26. 1875 in which the Comet sank and the Manitoba was heavily damaged; ten crewmen died.

What canal in new york opens to the great lakes?

The "Erie Canal", opened on October 26, 1825 but not fully completed until 1832.

Which one is different from the others Ontario Michigan Ohio or Erie?

Lake Michigan is the only one of the Great Lakes that is entirely within the US boundaries. All the other lakes have split boundaries with Canada. Lake Michigan is between the states of Michigan on the east and Illinois and Wisconsin on the west.