Lakes
What percentage of freshwater is found in rivers and lakes?
Only around 3 percent of available water is freshwater, which is only 1 percent of world’s freshwater is found in rivers, ponds and lakes. About aroun 67 percent of freshwater is locked in ice form in snow and glacier.
How are oxbow lakes formed?
Oxbow lake starts out as a curve, or a meander in a river. A lake form as the river finds a more different shorter course. The meander becomes an oxbow lake along with lake along side of river.
Which city is known as the city of lakes?
Udaipur is known as the city of lakes.
Which country is known as the land of thousands of lakes?
Finland is the country which is known as land of thousands of lakes.
What is the water divide? Give an example.
Any mountain that separates or divides the two drainage basin, an upland is termed as water divide.
Example of water divide –
- Western ghats act as water divide between the west flowing rivers meeting the Arabian sea and east flowing rivers meeting the Bay of Bengal.
- The water divide between the Indus and the Ganga river systems is one of the major Water divide at Ambala. The Indus, the Sutlej and the Brahmaputra rivers rise very close to each other but because of the water divides they flow in different directions.
Importance of Lakes
The term describes the river system of an area or the flow of water through different channels. Many of the small streams and rivers come together to form the main river from different directions which drain into a large water body such as a lake sea or ocean.
The area drained by a single river and its tributaries is termed a drainage basin. The Amazon River is the world’s largest drainage basin. In India, The Ganga River is the largest drainage basin.
Any mountain or an upland that separates or divides the two drainage basins is termed as water divide.
Table of Content
- Lakes in India
- Importance of Lakes
- Water Pollution in Lakes