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Rating Newest Oldest. Best Answer: You need just two things to form a lake: A source of water, and a basin, or depression, where it can collect. More of the worldâs lakes were formed by glaciers than by any other method. During the Ice Age, much of the Northern Hemisphere was covered with great glaciers that cut or enlarged depressions in the earth which later filled with water. These are called glacial lakes.
Glaciers are formed when more snow falls in winter than melts in summer. As snow accumulates over many seasons it becomes ice. The weight from snow and ice causes the bottom layers to move, fashioning a frozen river of snow and ice that slowly flows across the landscape, eroding and shaping it into unique landforms. When this process is reversed, the glaciers retreat back up the mountain.