Answer:
Technically or hydrologically The Great Lakes is comprised of four different lakes in Canada although there are 5 named lakes and most people of your parents and grandparents generation learned in school that there are 5.
Explanation:
There are five different named lakes that are part of the Great Lakes that lie either at or near the Canada–United States border. They are lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie, and Ontario. However, Lake Michigan and Lake Huron are naturally joined at the Straits of Mackinac so it is technically just one lake in hydrological terms. There is a waterway constructed that allows large vessels to travel by water between the lakes. Parts of this waterway are natural and some are engineered like the Welland Canal where Lake Ontario and Lake Erie meet and the Soo Locks where Lake Huron meets Lake Superior. Together the Great Lakes make up the largest set of freshwater lakes in the world.
