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- Lake is a large body of water that is entirely surrounded by land.
- Lake water can be fresh or more rarely salty or saline.
- Lakes are of great value to human beings.
- It helps to regulate the flow of a river.
- As a lake is separated from the ocean, it is not a sea.
- Some lakes are very big, and people in the past sometimes called them seas.
- Lakes do not flow, like rivers, but many have rivers flowing into and out of them.
- Finland is known as the ‘Country of Lakes’.
- Lakes are highly valued for their recreational, aesthetic, scenic, and water-supply qualities.
- Lakes constitute important habitats and food resources for a diverse array of fish, aquatic life, and wildlife.
