Lakes and Wetlands

Lakes and Wetlands With Professer Stick man By: Andre Szagesh Hi!

So, we have a few questions to answer

These questions are on a little sheet of paper with black words, blablabla

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…

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.

Lakes and Wetlands