BIOL 4280 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Crater Lake, Great Lakes Areas Of Concern, Rift Lake

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOL 4280
• Professor: Haffner G

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Concepts: who was forel and what was his contribution to limnology? physics, chemistry, biology and archeology. Oceanography is the study of the ocean; limnology is oceanography of the lakes. There is a need to distinguish these two terms because even though some lakes resemble oceans, lakes are by no means an ocean. Out of all of earths water, 2. 5% is freshwater. Baikal (23,600 km3), tanganyika (18,900 km3), lake superior (11,600 km3), lake malawi (7,725 km3), lake. Michigan (4,900 km3), lake huron (3,540 km3), lake victoria (2,700 km3), great bear lake (2,700 km3), lake ontario (1,710 km3), great slave lake (1580 km3: where do the laurentian great lakes fall within the above statistics? surfaces. Lakes: typically > 0. 1 km2 (general rule, > 3m depth (soft rule, often thermally stratified not a hard. Rule, but ponds do not thermally stratify: light doesn"t penetrate all of bottom (soft. Rule: most of these rules are ignored, e. g.