GEOG 198: Lakes Introduction

Monomictic Lakes that only circulate once during the ______ year.

Warm monomictic Lakes that circulate freely during the ______, having a stable thermal stratification during the summer.

Cold monomictic Lakes that remain near ______ °C throughout the year but circulate only during the summer.

Polymictic Lakes that ______ irregularly throughout the year.

Meromictic Lakes that do not undergo complete ______, usually because of a stable thermal or chemical layer near the bottom.

A lake is an area where ______ seepage or surface water runoff accumulates at low elevations.

Water in lakes do not get trapped because the rate of water runoff entering is faster than the rate it could escape through ______, river outflows, or via evaporation.

Lakes are formed in areas of low elevation, such as a ______ or basin.

The distribution of large lakes around the world is represented by dots in a diagram from ______ and Serruya, 1990.

Researchers used a geo-statistical approach to estimate the volume and age of water stored in global ______.