Science Homework Help

1. What is a lake? What are the diagnostic characteristics (appearance and assertions – location and
descriptions) of lake that make a lake recognizable? Said another way: What is unchanging about
lakes, in general? [One succinct paragraph, please, ~100 words; underline characteristics.]

2. What is a river? What are the diagnostic characteristics (appearance and assertions – location and
descriptions) of river that make a river recognizable? Said another way: What is unchanging about
rivers, in general? [A second succinct paragraph, ~100 words; underline characteristics.]

3. Why do lakes and rivers persist? Name three (3) other phenomena on which lakes or rivers both
depend on; and for each of those phenomena, state whether it is uniquely identifiable (discrete) or
broadly distributed (diffuse) across the landscape. [A third succinct paragraph, also ~100 words.]

Answer above 3 questions based on geo thinking