What is the difference between a loch and a lake?

Question

Is a loch just in Scotland or are the everywhere and do there have to be Mountains on either side to make it a loch

Answer 1

Lake denotes a large area of water which has land all around it to go boating on it etc However loch is a lake in Scotland and full name is - Loch Lomond.That is the difference between them dear.

Answer 2

A loch is a body of water which is either:

a lake or;
a sea loch, which may be a firth, fjord, estuary, bay or sea inlet.
This name for a body of water is Gaelic[1] in origin and is applied to most lakes in Scotland and to many sea inlets in the west and north of Scotland. It is also applied to lakes and bays in Ireland. The anglicised form of loch in Ireland is lough.



A lake is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size surrounded by land. The vast majority of lakes on Earth are fresh water, and most lie in the Northern Hemisphere at higher latitudes. In ecology the environment of a lake is referred to as lacustrine. Large lakes are occasionally referred to as "inland seas" and small seas are occasionally referred to as lakes.

The term lake is also used to describe a feature such as Lake Eyre, which is a dry basin most of the time but may become filled under seasonal conditions of heavy rainfall.

Many lakes are artificial and are constructed for hydro-electric power supply, recreational purposes, industrial use, agricultural use, or domestic water supply

Answer 3

loch is scotish or something

Answer 4

linguistics... spelling