Littoral land refers to a piece of land that borders a pooled or standing body of water, such as a lake, ocean, or sea. This classification differs from riparian land, which borders a flowing water source, such as a river or stream.
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A shore, on the other hand, may refer to parts of land adjoining any large body of water, including oceans (sea shore) and lakes (lake shore).
The definition of lakes and why there's no standardizationA pond is a body of water less than 0.5 acres (150 square meters) in an area or less than 20 feet (6 meters) in depth. A lake is defined as a body of water bigger than 1 acre (4,000 m²), although size is not a reliable indicator of its water quality.
So, the four zones of a lake are: the nearshore or littoral zone, open water or limnetic zone, deep water or profundal zone, the benthic zone or lake floor. The different conditions, such as the amount of light, food, and oxygen in each of the lake zones, affect what kind of organisms live there.
Summary. English: The three primary zones of a lake are the littoral, open-water (also called the photic or limnetic), and deep-water (also called the aphotic or profundal) zones. If the above link no longer works, visit http://www.ck12.org and search for CK-12 Earth Science.
During the summer, if a waterbody is deep enough to stratify into three distinct layers, with one warm layer on top, one cold layer at the bottom and a layer of rapidly changing temperature in between (called a “thermocline”), then it is a “lake,” while a waterbody with one or two weakly defined layers is a “pond.”
Epilimnion. This is the upper, less dense layer of warmer water, that is readily mixed by wind. ...
Metalimnion. Also called the thermocline, this is the middle layer characterized by a steady drop in water temperature, that prevents water mixing between the epilimnion and hypolimnion. ...
It is possible to use shoreline or shore to describe the edge of a pond. Sometimes, beach would be used to describe a small reservoir's land boundary or an ocean's land boundary.