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a small, discrete body of water held by some plants. Plunge pool: a depression at the base of a waterfall. Pool: various small bodies of water such as a swimming pool, reflecting pool, pond, or puddle. Pond: a body of water smaller than a lake, especially those of artificial origin. Port
List of lakes and lochs of the United Kingdom; List of lakes and reservoirs – Mogollon Rim – Mogollon Plateau; List of lakes in Aust-Agder; List of lakes in Bavaria
Compare to Category:Landforms and Category:Wetlands Bodies of water may exist within land areas or within other bodies of water and may be natural, human-made or a combination. Contents Top
This is a list of bodies of water by salinity that is limited to natural bodies of water that have a stable salinity above 0.05%, at or below which water is considered fresh. Water salinity often varies by location and season, particularly with hypersaline lakes in arid areas, so the salinity figures in the table below should be interpreted as ...
The chemical composition of water in aquatic ecosystems is influenced by natural characteristics and processes including precipitation, underlying soil and bedrock in the drainage basin, erosion, evaporation, and sedimentation. [13] All bodies of water have a certain composition of both organic and inorganic elements and compounds. Biological ...
Water moves perpetually through each of these regions in the water cycle consisting of the following transfer processes: evaporation from oceans and other water bodies into the air and transpiration from land plants and animals into the air. precipitation, from water vapor condensing from the air and falling to the earth or ocean.
"The scales make lots of micro-turbulences where water whirls around close to the body surface and reduces the drag effect of the outer layers of water around the body." "This is what is exploited ...
Freshwater ecosystem. Freshwater ecosystems are a subset of Earth's aquatic ecosystems that include the biological communities inhabiting freshwater waterbodies such as lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, springs, bogs, and wetlands. [1]