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Which Great Lakes island has the highest elevation?
Lake Superior has the highest surface elevation of the Great Lakes. Lake Superior has an average surface elevation of 601.1 ft above sea level. Lakes Huron and Michigan are connected, so they have the same elevation of 577.5 ft above sea level. Then it drops down a mere 8 ft to Lake Erie which has an elevation of 569.2 ft. Finally, after flowing through the Niagara River, the water drops down to Lake Ontario which has an elevation of only 243.3 ft.
Are the great lakes and finger lakes the same?
No
Why are great lakes steelhead genetically same as pacific northwest?
Great Lakes steelhead were introduced into the region from Pacific Northwest fish species
What are the lines joining places of same elevation called?
a contour line joins places of equal elevation
How long do the great lakes streach from east to west?
From East to West, the Great Lakes stretch for nearly a thousand miles across the heartland of the United States and Canada. The Great Lakes contain roughly 22% of the world's fresh surface water: 5,472 cubic miles. The combined surface area of the lakes is approximately 94,250 square miles (244,100 km2)-nearly the same size as the United Kingdom, and larger than the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont and New Hampshire combined.
New York finger lakes were formed by the same process as the Great Lakes what was the process?
Movement of Tectonic Plates!
New York's finger lakes were formed by the same process as the Great Lakes . What was this process?
Movement of Tectonic Plates!
Which one of the great lakes shares the same name with a state?
Lake Michigan
Which one of the states share the same name with the Great Lakes?
Lake Michigan
Why don't the Great Lakes have tides?
The Great Lakes do not have tides because they are not connected to the ocean. Tides are caused by the gravitational pull of the moon and the sun on the Earth's oceans, but the Great Lakes are freshwater bodies surrounded by land, so they do not experience the same tidal forces as the oceans.
Is the Midwest the same thing as the great lakes?
No, the Midwest is a region of the country and the Great Lakes are 5 giant lakes named Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario that are located in Canada and several states in the northern United States
Were the great lakes discovered at the same time?
The great lakes were discovered around the same time but not all at the same time. They cover a vast area of many hundreds of miles. As explorers traveled west in search of new land they came upon the lakes and made note of them.
