There are also coastal lagoons, such as Lakes Lesina and Varano, in Puglia, and lakes resulting from prehistoric faulting, such as Lake Alleghe, near Belluno.
Alligators are carnivorous and live along the edges of permanent bodies of water, such as lakes, swamps, and rivers.
Most of the coastal lakes, such as Lakes Kasumi and Hamana of Honshu, are drowned former valleys, the bay mouths of which have been dammed by sandbars.
Freshwater ecosystems are divided into two major classes flowing (such as rivers and streams) and static (such as lakes and ponds).
Small ecological systems, such as lakes, often switch states in this way and there is no obvious reason why a large system like the Earth should not do likewise.
In the real world, of course, such a large area would have an incalculable number of features; in the world of the model, features such as lakes and forests and, indeed, whole mountain ranges are reduced to a limited set of properties, which are then expressed as numerical approximations.
Territorial waters are thus to be distinguished on the one hand from the high seas, which are common to all countries, and on the other from internal or inland waters, such as lakes wholly surrounded by the national territory or certain bays or estuaries.
Natural features include relief, which is sometimes mistakenly understood to be the sole feature characterizing a topographic map, and hydrographic features, such as lakes and rivers; man-made features include other characteristics of the subject area, such as cities, towns, and villages, and roads, railroads, canals, dams, bridges, tunnels, parks, and other features.
"But the moon exerts no influence on smaller bodies of water such as lakes and some seas, and the difference between a person's weight in the presence of the moon's gravity and his or her weight if there were no moon is less than a mosquito on one's shoulder".
More recently, their potential to monitor inland water bodies such as lakes, rivers and wetlands has been recognised.
The fluvial archive literature is dominated by research on river terraces with appropriate mention of adjacent environments such as lakes.
