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Difference between Lake and Reservoir

Lake vs. Reservoir

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. A reservoir is an enlarged lake behind a dam, usually built to store fresh water, often doubling for hydroelectric power generation.

Algae

Algae (alga) are any of a large and diverse group of photosynthetic, eukaryotic organisms.

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Bay

A bay is a recessed, coastal body of water that directly connects to a larger main body of water, such as an ocean, a lake, or another bay.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Coast

A coastalso called the coastline, shoreline, or seashoreis the land next to the sea or the line that forms the boundary between the land and the ocean or a lake.

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Dam

A dam is a barrier that stops or restricts the flow of surface water or underground streams.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Drinking water

Drinking water or potable water is water that is safe for ingestion, either when drunk directly in liquid form or consumed indirectly through food preparation.

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Ecosystem

An ecosystem (or ecological system) is a system that environments and their organisms form through their interaction.

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Eutrophication

Eutrophication is a general term describing a process in which nutrients accumulate in a body of water, resulting in an increased growth of microorganisms that may deplete the oxygen of water.

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Fresh water

Fresh water or freshwater is any naturally occurring liquid or frozen water containing low concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids.

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Groundwater

Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations.

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Hydroelectricity

Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power).

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Hypolimnion

The hypolimnion or under lake is the dense, bottom layer of water in a thermally-stratified lake.

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Lake stratification

Lake stratification is the tendency of lakes to form separate and distinct thermal layers during warm weather.

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Levee

A levee, dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure used to keep the course of rivers from changing and to protect against flooding of the area adjoining the river or coast.

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Limnology

Limnology is the study of inland aquatic ecosystems.

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Methane

Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one carbon atom bonded to four hydrogen atoms).

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Nutrient

A nutrient is a substance used by an organism to survive, grow and reproduce.

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Oligotroph

An oligotroph is an organism that can live in an environment that offers very low levels of nutrients.

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Recreation

Recreation is an activity of leisure, leisure being discretionary time.

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River

A river is a natural flowing freshwater stream, flowing on land or inside caves towards another body of water at a lower elevation, such as an ocean, lake, or another river.

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Silt

Silt is granular material of a size between sand and clay and composed mostly of broken grains of quartz.

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Stream

A stream is a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.

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Surface runoff

Surface runoff (also known as overland flow or terrestrial runoff) is the unconfined flow of water over the ground surface, in contrast to channel runoff (or stream flow).

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Turbidity

Turbidity is the cloudiness or haziness of a fluid caused by large numbers of individual particles that are generally invisible to the naked eye, similar to smoke in air.

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Valley

A valley is an elongated low area often running between hills or mountains, which typically contains a river or stream running from one end to the other.

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Volcano

A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.

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