(Post 5) Why is it important for lands to have bodies of Water?

By: Casey Williams


   There are so many ways lakes and ponds are a must. Lakes are mostly used for recreation, swimming, nature viewing, boating, and fishing are popular activities that take place. To me they are important, they provide a water supply to agricultural, domestic, and industrial uses.
   Lakes and ponds provide a excellent habitat, I feel like for everything. They play a essential part in hydration for animals. You have to think about living organisms as well living inside lakes and ponds. It provides them habitats, food and a good environment. It will protect even endangered species as well. It will always provide a healthy population. Supporting of what I have said, in the article it said, "lakes and ponds support and regulate the services of soil formation, biodiversity, groundwater recharge and flood protection."
   Having lakes and ponds, it ensures biologist or everyone that those species are safe. They also ensure having a great habitat and also can provide the wildlife all around hydration.
   I really support this article because it gives me a lot of information about on why lakes and ponds are important as to what they bring to the table for the environment. It gives us cool pictures to look at as well. It even gives us some of the different organisms that live in lakes and ponds as to what there task is. In there article it said, Phytoplankton plays the role of the temperature of the body of water. It absorbs the sun's radiation, so there for will play a huge part of the temperature.


Title: Lakes and Ponds
Article by: Matt Wilson
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