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World lakes - Coggle Diagram
World lakes
Chicago Great Lakes
winter experiences a lot of storms
summer good for fishing
super large
have to go to Sault Saint Marie
use a canna to get to Lake Huron
10% of earths unfrozen fresh water in this lake
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super large
pass through a waterway called the straits of Mackinac to get to lake Michigan
shallower water
go through the Detroit river to get to Lake Erie
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lakes of Africa
lake Tanganyika
Africa's deepest longest lake
long and narrow because In the Rift Valley
strange fishes
looks like fingers
2nd largest lake in Africa
2 deepest in da world
many transportation routes because it passes 4 countries Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, Zambia
many boats(ferry/kayak/canoe)
lake Victoria
the biggest lake in Africa
source of the Nile river
Northeast of Lake Tanganyika
many big islands
takes several days to get from the southern part of the lake in Tanzania to the northern part of the lake in Uganda then you reach the source of the Nile river
home to two hundred types of fish
largest tropical lake in the world
lake chad
touched by Niger Nigeria, Cameroon, and Chad
the lake is very shallow
deeper in June through September
a lot of papyrus that makes the lake look solid
a lot of water lilies that almost form a solid mat
Lake chad is getting smaller 6,000 years ago chad was almost 20 times its size
lakes of Eurasia
Aral Sea
shrinking constantly
located between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan
it was once almost as big as West Virginia
was once the 4rth largest lake in the world
the water source was diverted away from the lake and they forgot to build a canal so the water can come back into the sea so it is constantly shrinking.
the Caspian Sea
actually not a sea its a lake
largest saltwater lake in the world
largest inland body of water in the world
located in a dessert
Lake Baikal
largest lake in the world
the clearest freshwater lake in the world
called the pearl of siberia
20% of the worlds unfrozen freshwater is in lake baikal
so clear that optical illusions make big rocks deep under water look like small pebbles close to the shore.
lakes of South America
Lake titikaka
first potatoes were grown near lake Titikakaka
people get everything they need from the lake fish water for crops and water to drink
the reeds there are incredibly strong and are used to make boats, furniture, and shelter with them they even have floating houses called uros.
No one knows what lake Titicaca name means
20 rivers feed into the lake
the water comes from melted glaciers
Lake maracaibo
actually a gulf
rich with petroleum
a bustling trading hub and a center of industry
gets more lightning than anywhere else in earth more than 230 flashes of lighting per square kilometer