{"id":11929,"date":"2015-08-23T06:14:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T06:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=11929"},"modified":"2015-08-23T06:14:58","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T06:14:58","slug":"biology-difference-between-a-lake-and-a-pond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-difference-between-a-lake-and-a-pond\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology:  difference between a lake and a pond"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>The tutor shares a definition he stumbled upon.<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never thought about it much, but always believed I knew the difference between a lake and a pond.  However, the guessing is over for any who may be in doubt; I encountered the distinction between them in a biology text the other day:<\/p>\n<p>Throughout a pond, light penetrates full depth, so plants live everywhere along the bottom.  By contrast, a lake contains water deeper than light penetrates; parts of its bottom do not host plants.<\/p>\n<p>Some of my reading suggests that sunlight can penetrate 25 to 100 metres deep in water.  Therefore, a lake must be quite deep indeed &#8211; possibly 80 to 330 feet &#8211; unless its water is cloudy enough to block sunlight at shallower depth.<\/p>\n<p>Many inland bodies of water I would have called lakes are, I suppose, ponds.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be sharing more of my biology browsings in future posts:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Ritter, Bob.  <u>Nelson Biology.<\/u>  Scarborough:  Nelson Canada, 1996.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lakeaccess.org\/ecology\/lakeecologyprim9.html\">lakeaccess.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tutor shares a definition he stumbled upon. I&#8217;ve never thought about it much, but always believed I knew the difference between a lake and a pond. However, the guessing is over for any who may be in doubt; I &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-difference-between-a-lake-and-a-pond\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology:  difference between a lake and a pond<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,779],"tags":[1008],"class_list":["post-11929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biology","category-botany","tag-difference-between-a-lake-and-a-pond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11929"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11936,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11929\/revisions\/11936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}