作者:Emma Charlton 10 年以前
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EDUC 235 Digital Story
form the largest group
of fresh water lakes on Earth
largest freshwater lake on Earth
U.S- Canadian Border:
touching Ontario in Canada &
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
& New York in U.S
11th largest freshwater
lake in the world
5th largest freshwater
lake in the world
14th largest lake in
the world
3rd largest freshwater
lake in the world
The Great Lakes
Lake Ontario
easternmost great lake,
lies at the base of Niagara Falls
only great lake that doesn't
share a shoreline with Michigan
smallest of the great lakes in
surface area
bounded by Ontario & NY
Lake Superior
contains over 300 shipwrecks
coldest, deepest, & highest
in elevation of any of the lakes
its borders: Ontario &
Minnesota, Michigan & Wisconsin
could contain all the great lakes
plus three more lake erie's
largest of the great lakes
Lake Huron
was the first of the great lakes
to be discovered by European
explorers; scattered with shipwrecks
its borders are MI & Ontario
longest shoreline of all the lakes
counting its 30,000 islands
2nd largest by surface area
Lake Michigan
its borders are IN,
IL, MI & WI
nicknamed the third coast
because of the amount of beaches
3rd largest in surface are, &
2nd largest by volume
only one entirely in U.S
Lake Erie
4th largest of the lakes
in surface area & smallest
by water volume
it borders NY, OH, PA
& MI, & Ontario
southernmost,
shallowest, warmest,
and most biologically
productive of the lakes