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 Wassup! Welcome to Stephanie and Erica's Homepage for the biome Fresh Water Lakes!  ('__)< <-Our Fishy Mascot!     Where are Lakes?  Our biome is fresh water lakes which contains MANY lakes all over the world. From the Great Lakes in the US to Lake Titcaca in Central America to Lake Baikal in Russia, fresh water lakes are just about anywhere! Most lakes are located in the Northern Hemisphere near mountainous areas and rift zones. The reason why most lakes are usually located in the Northern Hemisphere is because glaciers once crossed the land and eventually started melting. They soon melted into glacier lakes. If you look carefully you can see a couple of lakes. In southern Siberia there's Lake Baikal. And you can see the Great Lakes in the Midwest of the United States. As you can see they're all over the place!   Since there are so many lakes in the world, let's just focus on Lake Baikal.

Climate Information

This lake is located in the southern part of Russia. Lake Baikal's climate is continental, which is is influenced by a large landmasss. It's summers are hot and winters are typically long and cold. There are four seasons in continental climate: summer, fall, winter, and spring. The temperature around Lake Baikal ranges typically from - 12 to -27°C in the winter. That's pretty cold! And in the summer it's usually 15 - 18°C on Baikal, that's only 59-64 degrees Farenheit. The amount of precipitation also varies at different parts of the lake. Most precipitaton falls near the southern end of Lake Baikal because the warm masses of air cool over the lake's surface. The average annual precipitation is 495 millimeters (49.5 cm) on the southern side of the lake. During warmer seasons there is more precipitation than there is during winter. Lake Baikal is cooler than many lakes and is the deepest and largest (by volume) lake in the world.

 This picture is of Lake Baikal in the summer. It looks beautiful,doesn't it?



 And this is Baikal in winter. Oh, did you know that in winter the ice could get up to 110 cm thick? That's pretty thick!

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