Lakes and Ponds

What are some ways that lakes and ponds are formed by nature?

• Glaciers, Equakes, Volcanoes, and Meteorites.

• Earthquakes

• Volcanoes

• Meterorites

What are someways humans create lakes or ponds?

• Dams

• Depressions

• Both

A pond is a ______________ in which sunlight _______ the bottom, causing plants to grow everywhere.

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A lake is............

• Large and deep with sunlight hitting the shoreline only

• Small and shallow with sunlight hitting everywhere

1. What is one of the outcomes of introducing New fish in a lake? (think of Nile Perch in Lake Victoria)

• boost the fishing industry

• Decrease of algae

• Increase in oxygen

• increasing fish biodiversity.

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1. What is the process, which helps produce oxygen at about 75% of oxygen required for animal and humans.

• photosynthesis

• oxygen production

• carbon dioxide

• phytoplankton

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Cichlids are

• A Extinct in Lake Victoria

• B Predators

• C responsible for managing the algae populations

• A and C