What is the difference between lake and sea?

Question

What is the difference between lake and sea?

Answer 1

A sea has tides

Answer 2

lake is surrounded by land from all sides, it is just a collection of water (could be still water), whereas sea is a vast body of water, various rivers ultimately fall into a sea....

when 2 or more seas merge with one another, they form an ocean....

Answer 3

One is spelled L-a-k-e

and the other S-e-a

Answer 4

sea is bigger than lake. lake has got no waves, unlike the sea. for better info check out any dictionary.

Answer 5

Lake is a Water Island and Sea is a Water Country and an Ocean is a Water Continent. :-))))))))))))))

Regards

Vinay

Answer 6

lake is a subsidary of river which in turn is a subsidary of sea.a lake is spread over few km,whereas a sea streches over massive areas.

Answer 7

Lake

Lakes are either salt water or fresh water. It is a large area of water surrounded by land.

Sea

All seas are salt water and bigger than the lake for it covers most of the surface of the Earth.

Answer 8

lakes are tinier then seas and lakes are mostly freshwater while seas are salt water.

Answer 9

The water of a Sea touches other countries.  A Lake doesnt.

Answer 10

Lakes are usually surrounded by land.... sea doesn't

Answer 11

lakes are inland bodies of water

Answer 12

like tini is a lake and tini's mother is sea.

Answer 13

maybe sea is so deeper than lake!

Answer 14

sea is blue in colour and it as waves but the lakes don't have waves

Answer 15

I think all lakes are freshwater.

Answer 16

Lake: A large inland body of fresh water or salt water

Sea: A division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land

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