A lake with a fast flushing rate is less sensitive to changes in its nutrient loading than one with a slow flushing rate. Slow flushing rates give nutrients a chance to settle to the bottom and be recycled within the water column. Defined in Maine law as natural lakes more than 10 acres in size or human-made impoundments more than 30 acres in size. The entire lake is the same temperature from top to bottom. In deep lakes, homothermous water occurs in spring and fall.
Many shallow lakes are homothermous all the time except when the surface is covered with ice.
The sequence of conditions through which water passes from vapor in the atmosphere through precipitation upon land or water surfaces and ultimately back into the atmosphere as a result of evaporation and transpiration. Science dealing with the properties, distribution, and circulation of water on and below the earth's surface and in the atmosphere. A permanent, inland body of standing water with no sustained directional flow detectable to the naked eye. In general, a lake has sufficient depth that light does not penetrate all the way to the bottom in the deepest parts of the lake and often stratifies into three distinct layers of water during the summer. Ponds by contrast, have light penetration throughout the body of water and will have only one or two layers during stratification.