Table of Contents
- 1 What is a lake behind a dam called?
- 2 What is an artificial or natural lake built by placing a dam across a stream or river that is used to store and often regulate discharge of water called?
- 3 Which of the following is artificial lake?
- 4 How are artificial lakes formed?
- 5 What are the uses of an artificial lake?
- 6 How does a man made lake get formed?
What is a lake behind a dam called?
A reservoir is an artificial lake where water is stored. Most reservoirs are formed by constructing dams across rivers. A reservoir can also be formed from a natural lake whose outlet has been dammed to control the water level. These reservoirs, sometimes called cisterns, hold clean water.
What is behind a dam?
Hydroelectric power is produced as water passes through a dam, and into a river below. The more water that passes through a dam, the more energy is produced. Once a dam is built, an artificial man-made lake is created behind the dam. Electricity is produced by a device called a turbine.
What is an artificial or natural lake built by placing a dam across a stream or river that is used to store and often regulate discharge of water called?
A large reservoir is created, usually by damming a river to create an artificial lake, or reservoir. Water is channeled through tunnels in the dam. The energy of water flowing through the dam’s tunnels causes turbines to turn.
Is there artificial lake?
An artificial lake, in certain environments, can be used for naturalistic purposes, like the creation of bird habitats. Other smaller artificial lakes, with reduced dimensions, have also been built with an aesthetic purpose in mind, especially in parks, but also sports fishing purposes.
Which of the following is artificial lake?
The Correct Answer is Option 1 i.e Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu). Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu): it is a manmade/artificial lake located in the Kodaikanal city in Dindigul district in Tamil Nadu. Kodaikanal Lake was created in the year 1863 by Sir Vere Henry Levinge, the former Collector of Madurai.
How does a dam create a lake?
A dam blocks the flow of a stream or river. This blockage forms a reservoir, or artificial lake.
How are artificial lakes formed?
In contrast to natural processes of lake formation, reservoirs are artificial, usually formed by constructing a dam across a riveror by diverting a part of the river flow and storingthe water in a reservoir. Upon completion of the dam, the river pools behind the dam and fills the artificially created basin (UNEP 2000).
What is dam and types of dam?
Various Kinds of Dams
- Diversion Dam.
- Buttress Dam.
- Embankment Dam.
- Cofferdam.
- Storage Dam.
- Detention Dam.
- Gravity Dam.
What are the uses of an artificial lake?
Other times, artificial lakes were built to store water for agricultural purposes, to guarantee water supply, in time, and irrigate the land. An artificial lake, in certain environments, can be used for naturalistic purposes, like the creation of bird habitats.
Which is the second largest artificial lake in the world?
The Bratsk Reservoir is the world’s second largest artificial lake according to volume. Located in Russia, it was formed after the huge dam on the Angara River was built. It’s volume totals 169.3 km 3. The largest Italian artificial lake, although small when compared with the world’s largest, is Lake Omodeo, in Sardegna.
How does a man made lake get formed?
A reservoir is an artificial lake called man-made reservoir. It can be formed by building a dam across a valley, by excavating the land or by surrounding a piece of land with dykes and diverting a part of the river flow into the reservoir.
Which is the largest artificial lake in Ghana?
The artificial lake with the largest area is Lake Volta. This huge bed of water covers 8,805 km2, 3.5% of Ghana’s territory (just consider that the largest Italian lake, Lake Garda, only touches 368 km 2 ). The Akosombo dam, completed in 1966, blocked the Volta River, creating this huge water basin.