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Lake Formation and Management

Use your class notes, your text and the useful links to answer the following questions.

Some Useful Links:
http://www.epa.gov/owow/lakes/quality.html
http://www.dep.state.ct.us/cgnhs/lakes/lakepond.htm

http://www.nalms.org/lakesappreciation/lakefacts.htm

http://www.oocities.org/~jbenz/lgia.html

1. How do we know that lakes are extremely valuable resources?

 

 

2. List three lakes you have visited and why you were there

 

 

3. Describe three ways that ways that lakes form in river systems because the flow of water is blocked by nature or by people.

 

 

 

4. Describe 2 reasons why lakes are naturally temporary features of river systems.

 

 

 

5. What are the three main ways that pollution enters a lake/river system?

 

 

 

6. Describe 2 ways in which human activity speeds up the "death" of lakes.

 

 

7. Describe 2 ways that we can slow the death of lakes.

 

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