2007-02-18 13:49:12 · 7 answers · asked by EG 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Geographers normally respect the names given by the people that first "discover" or at least describe in literature new places. In the past most "seas" are large salty and connected to the oceans - Red Sea, North Sea, Sea of Cortez. However there are inland seas, that are large and salty - Dead Sea, Salton Sea. A few large fresh water lakes have been called seas - Sea of Gallilee. Lakes are inland and nearly always have an outlet, so they remain fresh - Great Lakes. Artificial reservoirs formed by dams are usually refered to as lakes - Lake Havasu, Lake Mead. However some lakes have no outlet and are quite salty - Great Salt Lake, various "dry" lakes.
I think in the far past, the term sea meant any body of water sufficiently large as to regularly require navigation by boats as oppossed to traversing around by land.
2007-02-19 05:39:24 · answer #1 · answered by lare 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sea Vs Lake
2017-01-12 20:38:48 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting question so I looked it up, A Sea is a body of water connected to an ocean, therefore (i believe is is salt water) A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. I know a lake can be either salt water or fresh.
2007-02-18 13:57:58 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, lakes are more shallow than seas. Seas are just small oceans, and a lake is a small body of water surrounded on all sides by land, unless it is part of a river.
2007-02-18 13:57:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually a lake is fresh water with a source and an outlet of flowing water
A sea is usually a body of salt water that has inflow , but no out flow and the salt is caused by evaporation.
2007-02-18 14:35:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well a lake is fresh water and the sea is salt water and the sea is deeper and the surface area is greater! all three
2007-02-18 13:56:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
a sea is way bigger than a lake and has more creatures living in it.
2007-02-18 17:04:26 · answer #7 · answered by Carmen 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋