- •Р.А. Юсупова
- •От автора
- •Unit 1 aquaculture Active vocabulary
- •1 Aquaculture
- •1.1 Read the following international words and translate them. (Mind the part of speech).
- •1.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •1.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •1.4 Answer the questions
- •1.6 Translate the given Russian words into the English ones:
- •1.7 Match the words with their definitions.
- •1.8 Read the text without a dictionary. Aquaculture’s beginnings
- •2 Ancient and modern aquaculture
- •2.1 Read the following international words and translate them. (Mind the part of speech).
- •2.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •2.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •2.4 Give English equivalents:
- •Vocabulary
- •4.5 Give English equivalents:
- •4.6 Translate the given Russian words into the English ones:
- •4.7 Match the words with their definitions.
- •4.8 Topics for discussion
- •Feeding the world through agriculture
- •5 Control over reared species
- •5.1 Read the following international words and translate them. (Mind the part of speech).
- •5.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •5.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •5.4 Give English equivalents:
- •5.9 Answer the questions
- •Unit 2 fish culture Active vocabulary
- •6 The big two in fish culture
- •Choose the equivalents:
- •Aquaculture species in the united states
- •1 Rainbow, brown
- •7.4 Give English equivalents:
- •4Bullhead
- •7.13 Render the following verbs with ing-forms into infinitives and translate them:
- •8 Culture systems
- •8.1 Read the following international words and translate them.
- •8.2 Give Russian equivalents of the following words and word combinations.
- •8.3 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •8.4 Give English equivalents:
- •8.5 Match the words with their definitions.
- •8.6 Fill in the gaps using the words given below:
- •8.7 Answer the questions
- •8.8 Read the text without a dictionary. Types of aquaculture opeations
- •Vocabulary
- •8.9 Match the words with their definitions.
- •8.10 Answer the questions
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •10.5 Translate the given Russian words into the English ones:
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •Vocabulary
- •12.5 Answer the questions
- •13 Potential adverse effects
- •13.1 Read and translate the text with the help of a dictionary.
- •Vocabulary
- •13.2 Answer the questions
- •14 Carp Aquaculture
- •Carp as ornamental fish
- •15 Tilapia Fish farming
- •Nutrition
- •Exotic species
- •Uses other than supplying food
- •In aquaria
- •16 Trout Anatomy
- •Habitat
- •As food
- •River fishing
- •17 Salmon Life cycle
- •Species
- •Atlantic Ocean species
- •Pacific Ocean species
- •Salmon fisheries
- •Salmon aquaculture
- •18 Shrimp Farming
- •Marketing
- •Life cycle
- •19 Grass carp
- •Ecology
- •Invasive species
- •Use as weed control
- •Fishing for grass carp
- •Triploid Grass Carp
- •20 Channel catfish
- •21 Pond
- •Technical definitions
- •Formation
- •Characteristics
- •22 Cage
- •Site Criteria
- •Pond Problems
- •Water Quality
- •Temperature
- •Turbidity
- •23 Raceway
- •Site selection
- •Water flow
- •Maximum load
- •Waste water
- •Appendix
- •Proverbs
- •Библиографический список
21 Pond
A pond in Swarzynice,
Poland
A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is usually smaller than a lake. A wide variety of man-made bodies of water are classified as ponds, including water gardens, water features and koi ponds; all designed for aesthetic ornamentation as landscape or architectural features, while fish ponds are designed for commercial fish breeding, and solar ponds designed to store thermal energy.
Standing bodies of water such as puddles, ponds, and lakes are distinguished from a water course, such as a brook, creek, or stream via current speed. While currents in streams are more easily observed, ponds and lakes possess thermally driven microcurrents and moderate wind-driven currents. These features distinguish a pond from many other aquatic terrain features, such as stream pools and tide pools.
Some mills use the kinetic energy of the moving water in the pond to generate electricity.
Technical definitions
The technical distinction between a pond and a lake has not been universally standardized. Limnologists and freshwater biologists have proposed formal definitions for pond, in part to include ‘bodies of water where light penetrates to the bottom of the waterbody,’ ‘bodies of water shallow enough for rooted water plants to grow throughout,’ and ‘bodies of water which lack wave action on the shoreline.’ Each of these definitions has met with resistance or disapproval, as the defining characteristics are each difficult to measure or verify. Accordingly, some organizations and researchers have settled on technical definitions of pond and lake which rely on size alone.
Even among
organizations and researchers who distinguish lakes from ponds by
size alone, there is no universally
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A small man-made garden pond at the Taj
Lake Palace in
Udaipur,
India
Formation
Ponds can result from a wide range of natural processes, although in many parts of the world these are now severely constrained by human activity. Any depression in the ground which collects and retains a sufficient amount of precipitation can be considered a pond, and such depressions can be formed by a variety of geological and ecological events.
In origin, pond is a variant form of the word pound, meaning a confining enclosure. As straying cattle are enclosed in a pound so water is enclosed in a pond. In earlier times, ponds were man-made and utilitarian; as stew ponds, mill ponds and so on. The significance of this feature seems, in some cases, to have been lost when the word was carried abroad with emigrants. In the United States, natural pools are often called ponds. Ponds for a specific purpose keep the adjective, such as “stock pond”, used for watering livestock.
Pond usually implies a quite small body of water, generally smaller than one would require a boat to cross. Another definition is that a pond is a body of water where even its deepest areas are reached by sunlight or where a human can walk across the entire body of water without being submerged. In some dialects of English, pond normally refers to small artificially created bodies of water.
Some regions of the United States define a pond as a body of water with a surface area of less than 10 acres (40,000 m²). Minnesota, known as the ‘land of 10,000 lakes’ is commonly said to distinguish lakes from ponds, bogs and other water features by this definition, but also says that a lake is distinguished primarily by wave action reaching the shore.
Regional differences include the use of the word pond in New England, and Maine in particular, for relatively large water bodies. For example aGreat Pond in Maine is considered to be at least 10 acres (41,240 m²) in area.
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Pond
in winter
The term is also used for temporary accumulation of water from surface runoff (ponded water).
There are various regional names for naturally occurring ponds. In Scotland, one of the terms is lochan, which may also apply to a large body of water such as a lake.
The word “pond” is sometimes also used to refer to theAtlantic Ocean in the expression “across the pond”, and the expression “big pond” similarly is sometimes used for the Pacific. These uses are deliberate idiomatic understatements.