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What's the Difference?
Lakes:
* made of fresh and salt water.
* surrounded by land.
* larger and deeper than ponds and fed by rivers.
* considered temporary, in geologic terms.
Oceans:
* large, continuous bodies of salt water.
* responsible, through evaporation, for rainfall on land.
* affect wind and climate patterns.
* cover nearly 71 percent of the Earth's surface. |