You are presented with the question "What are some of the steps that forms a lake?" and the following answer choices: 
- decomposition and respiration
 - storing water
 - photosynthesis and solar energy
 - near the shoreline
 - precipitation and run-off
 - perspiration and excretion
 - The area was once underwater
 - At the peak of a mountain

Now knowing that lakes are formed by precipitation and runoff and runoff from precipitation is a natural part of the water cycle, choose the best answer.


 

     precipitation and run-off    