A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially. A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguish
Pond at Cornjum, Netherlands
A man made pond at sunset in Montgomery County, Ohio.
Stereoscopic image of a pond in Central City Park, Macon, GA, c. 1877.
Vegetated pond within the sand dunes of the Lençóis Maranhenses National Park, Brazil
A lake is often a naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface. It is localized in a basin or interconnected basins surrounded by dry land. Lakes lie co
Pond
…A pond is a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially. A pond is smaller than a lake and there are no official criteria distinguishing the two, although defining a pond to be less than 5 hectares (12 acres) in area, less than 5 metres…
Lake Idro, an Italian prealpine lake of glacial origin situated largely within the province of Brescia (Lombardy) and in part in Trentino.
Sunset over Lake Michigan at Nordhouse Dunes in Manistee National Forest, Michigan, United States
Lake Trasimeno, Italy, has volcanic origin
The crater lake of Mount Rinjani, Indonesia