Defination between a lake and a sea?

Question

Defination between a lake and a sea?

Answer 1

Lake: A large INLAND body of fresh OR salt water.

Sea:  A large body of salt water PARTIALLY enclosed by land.

Answer 2

Lake is usually fresh water, surrounded by land & outflow is into another lake, river or stream. Sea is large, always salt water.

Answer 3

a lake is enclosed by land.

the sea surrounds land

Answer 4

There are exceptions but generally a sea is salt and a lake is fresh water

Answer 5

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Answer 6

size

Answer 7

many of these answers are wrong.  the caspian sea, the black sea, the dead, sea, the aral sea, and many more are entirely surrounded by land. I believe the size has one thing to do with it, as well as whether or not it's salt water.

Answer 8

As long as I can tell lake is a reservoir of unsalted water, while the  sea water is always salty and unsuitable for drink

Answer 9

a lake is smaller than the sea

Answer 10

isnt a lake surrounded by land?

a sea is open and tidal (like the med).

Answer 11

A lake is fresh water surrounded by land. An Inland sea is salt water, surrounded by land, such as the "salton Sea" in southern california, or the "black sea" . An open sea, or ocean, is salt water that is open to other oceans or seas.