2007-02-14 13:30:37 · 8 answers · asked by squirrelgirl749 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Geography
The largest source of FRESH water is the artic ice pack.
Largest body of fresh liquid water (by volume) is Lake Baikal in Russia. Largest body of fresh water (by area) is Lake Superior between Canada and USA.
2007-02-14 13:34:05 · answer #1 · answered by brebitz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's not the Caspian Sea, as the two above me insist; the Caspian Sea is salt water. So is the Aral Sea to the east of it, which used to be the world's second largest inland body of water but has now shrunk drastically due to irrigation and global warming.
Lake Baikal in Siberia is the largest liquid fresh water body by volume, but the largest in area is Lake Superior. Actually, Lakes Superior, Huron and Michigan are one body of water with three different names, so together they are the largest body of freshwater by area in the world.
2007-02-14 17:34:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The others are not even close.
The Caspian Sea is actually a very large lake. It is not a true sea.
The Caspian Sea is located in western Asia, bordering Russian Federation, Kazach, Azerbadzen, Turkmen (not Turkey), and Iran. The largest cities on the sea are Astrachan, Russia and Baku, Azerbadzen.
The Caspian Sea is located about 47º north latitude and 51.5º east longitude and continues southward to 37º north latitude and 52º east longitude. That is a total of 10º (or about 645 miles) southward.
The following is an alphabetical list of large cities as compared to the Caspian Sea:
Alma-Ata, Kazach is 1,255 miles east
Astrachan', Russian Federation is only 30 northwest
Bagdad, Iraq is 400 miles southwest
Baku, Azerbadzen is on the west coast
Char'kov, Ukraine is 615 miles west northwest
Dusanbe (Dushanbe), Tadzik is 830 miles east
Frunze, Kirgiz is 1,125 miles east
Gor'kij (Gorky), Russian Federation is 740 miles north
Jerevan, Armenia is 250 miles west
Kabul, Afghanistan is 880 miles east southeast
Karachi, Pakistan is 1,080 miles southeast
Kazan', Russian Federation is 620 miles north
Kijev (Kiev), Ukraine is 880 miles west northwest
Kisin'ov (Kishenev), Moldavia is 890 miles west
Kujbysev, Russian Federation is 425 miles north
Leningrad, Russian Federation is 1,225 miles north northwest
Minsk, Belorussia is 1090 miles northwest
Moskva (Moscow), Russian Federation is 845 miles north northwest
Riga, Latvia is 1,275 miles north northwest
Tabriz, Iran is 140 miles west
Tallinn, Estonia is 1,350 miles north northwest
Taskent, Uzbek is 845 miles east
Tbilisi, Georgia is 175 miles west
Tehran, Iran is only 75 miles south
Vilnius, Lithuania is 1,175 miles northwest
Volgograd (Stalingrad), Russian Federation is 275 miles northwest
2007-02-14 15:22:32 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Let's all READ the question ...... FRESH WATER BODY.
The Caspian Sea is salty so that gives the prize to Lake Baikal for largest volume or Lake Superior for largest surface area.
2007-02-15 11:02:21 · answer #4 · answered by tfaman 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The answer is Caspian Sea
The Caspian Sea is the largest lake on Earth by both area and volume,[2] with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometres (143,244 mi²) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometres (18,761 mi³).[3] It is a landlocked endorheic body of water and lies between Russia and Iran. It has a maximum depth of about 1025 meters (3,363 ft). It is called a sea because when the Romans first arrived there, they tasted the water and found it to be salty.[4] It has a salinity of approximately 1.2%, about a third the salinity of most water from the ocean.
2007-02-14 17:17:10 · answer #5 · answered by safrodin 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lake Superior is largest in the States. Lake Baikal is largest in the world.
2007-02-14 13:46:18 · answer #6 · answered by luosechi 駱士基 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Caspian Sea
2007-02-14 17:48:48 · answer #7 · answered by me 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Antarctic Ice Cap. It covers the entire continent, and it's nearly two miles thick at the South Pole.
Edit: So, you all maintain that ice is not a body of water? What is water? H2O. What is ice? Crystalline H2O.
2007-02-14 13:34:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋