lakes and wetlands

Lakes and Wetlands

With Professer Stick manBy: Andre SzageshHi!

So, we have a few questions to answer

These questions are on a little sheet of paper with black

words, bla bla bla

First question is, what caused the formation of most lakes in Michigan?

Well this is Michigan with its

lakes here

Lake michiganis there for some odd reason people wanted to know to they

made up words like runoff.

Runoff is were the rain water runs off the slopes

of mountains and hills flowing into creeks, rivers, steams, and soon into the

ocean.

However, not all of the water makes it into the

ocean, the water wants to go to the lowest part of land and michigan is not

made like that.

Here this map shows the depth of lake michigan,

red is not that deep, were the blue area is the deepest part, so the

water is going to want to go there first.

Now this lake does not have a big enough river that the water can go through to get to the

ocean, therefor the water can do to things.

First it can dry up, or second it can stay but only if there is enough

water, if there is there is a new beach for people to pollute with there junk.

Now the second question is, show how the great

lakes have formed…well start from back in the

beginning.

but when I type into the google search engine “Michigan before the

great lakes formed” trains appear.

So this is what we looked like before…pretend

that’s all land for now

Most of people say that the great lakes formed

because of the ice age…well at least a little bit over half of the great

lakes formed

And over time with all the rain fall, the water has added onto the great

lakes making them bigger.

The next question says define eutrophication, and it want a picture…however the word is

spelled wrong…

This is a picture of Eutrophication…words

are blurry, it means increase in the rate of

supply of organic matter in an ecosystem… or so

they say…

Next question wants causes of it…

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Hold on a sec…

There you go…here are some causes or

something like that…

Next question says…askes for me to list them in

steps…

First step…

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So the next question asks…well the next few

asks to define some words…wetland, bog,

marsh, swamp.

Wetland – land that is wet, something like a swamp.Bog - it’s a um…a wet marshy ground, largely consisting of accumulated decomposing plant material.Marsh – land that is low lying and is not suitable for building homes and businesses.Swamps – land that has a lot of water and usually if there was building there, they would be built some feet above the ground to avoid flooding of that nasty green water and alligators.