Informative Essay: The Great Salt Lake

The Great Salt Lake has many interesting physical. The Great Salt Lake is a massive Lake. The Lame is 75 miles long by 28 miles and covers about 1,700 square miles. Although the lake is big but it is not very deep. The lakes average depth is 14 feet deep. The deepest point of the lake is around 34-40 feet deep. I think you are wondering why the lake is called The Great Salt Lake. Well the lake is named that because of its salinity. Salinity is another word for saltiness. The Great Salt Lake is very salty because it is a terminal lake. A terminal lake is a lake that has water come into it but no water coming out. When the water is evaporated it leaves all the salt behind therefore the lake just keeps on getting saltier when the water evaporates.

Due to the salinity of the lake the lake has strange colors. At the northern part of the lake it is a purplish color. At the southern part of the lake is a normal color it is a murky blue. Now I am going to talk about the northern part of the lake. The northern part of the lake is the saltiest part of the lake. It is so salty that they say that you are not allowed to swim on that side because the salt will burn your skin. The northern part is 25% saltier than the southern side. The reason why the river is so salty is because there are no river putting freshwater into that side of the lake. That is due to the causeway in the middle it separates the two sides of the lake. Now I am going to talk about the southern part of the lake. The southern part of the lake is less salty than the northern part for one main reason, the rivers. The main river that flows into the lake is the Bear River. The Bear river provides 58% of the lakes water. There are to another river that also flows into the southern part of the lake those two rivers are the Jordan River and the Weber River. The Jordan river provides 22% of the lakes water and the Weber river provides 15% of the lake's