What Do Body Of Water Names Mean?
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Water Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/water
How Much Water Is There?: science.howstuffworks.com/env...
Body Of Water: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of...
Oceans: www.nationalgeographic.com/en...
Ocean Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/ocean...
Sea: www.geographyrealm.com/what-i...
Sea Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/sea#e...
Channel: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Channel: www.etymonline.com/word/chann...
Strait: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Strait Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/strai...
Gulf: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Gulf Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/gulf#...
Bay: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Bay Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/bay#e...
Cove: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Cove Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/cove#...
Sound: www.worldatlas.com/articles/w...
Sound Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/sound...
River: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
River Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/river...
Stream: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Stream Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/strea...
Tributary: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Tributary Etymology: www.merriam-webster.com/dicti...
Estuary: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Estuary Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/estua...
Delta: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Delta Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/delta...
Brook: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Brook Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/brook...
Lake: www.etymonline.com/search?q=lake
Lake Etymology: www.etymonline.com/search?q=lake
Oxbow Lake: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Oxbow Lake Etymology: www.etymonline.com/search?q=o...
Pond: ypte.org.uk/factsheets/ponds/...
Pond Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/pond#...
Canal: www.britannica.com/technology...
Canal Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/canal...
Moat: wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-d...
Moat Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/moat#...
Puddle: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Puddle Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/puddl...
Phytotelma: torontobotanicalgarden.ca/blo...
Phytotelma Etymology: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phytot...
“The word water came from the word “wod-or” meaning water” loled at that
The floor is indeed made out of floor
If he was from the states, he would've added that it also originated in philadelphia
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_Some people from Philly pronounce water_ 'wod-or' ...
It seems they got it right from the beginning
you, a fool: gulf
me, an intellectual: reverse peninsula
You the fool: reverse peninsula
Me, the intellectual: Sea tiddy
Craig Anuszkiewiez i concede defeat 😂
you, a fool: reverse peninsula
me, an intellectual: peninsulan’t
I search for humour and always find it in YT comments
My favourite body of water is a Tarn.
Generally means body of fresh water elevated on mountain, a great place to wild camp beside.
does that also include water that collects in crevices and dips in stone? like phytotelma but for rocks, or would that be called petrotelma
As I had learned in my aquatic ecology class many years ago, the limnologist (lake scientist) definition/difference between a pond and a lake is that a lake is too deep for rooted aquatic plants to grow, except in the shallows, whereas a pond could have rooted plants across it's width. Of course it's a little arbitrary due to local conditions
Here in New York (also Pennsylvania and Delaware), there's also a "Kill" - which is a dutch word left over from when the Dutch settled here. It means "channel or creek." Examples are Arthur Kill and Bronx Kill. It's also used in place names near bodies of water like Fishkill, and Catskill. By the way, the idiots at PETA tried to get the town of Fishkill to change the name of the town so it didn't celebrate killing fish. I guess they didn't do their research. Anyway, in the USA, particularly in the south, there's the term "Run" - like Bull Run - which seems to be synonymous with "Stream" or "River." It probably just comes from "running water." You also didn't talk about swamps - I guess you guys call them "bogs?" Also, a swamp near a larger body of water could be a "wetland."
Bob Levittan lol stupid peta
So it's Cats Kill but pronounce Cat Skill. Yeap, Peta is stupid. Killing cats is way worst than killing fish.
Swamps are actually both a body of water and land.
Philadelphia we have a schuylkill river
Don’t forget the Murderkill Hundred
"and Birmingham" lmao ded
I laughed out loud too. Sorry, Birmingham.
It was the way he said it that killed me.
He pronounced the word as the place in the UK is said.
@@Ggdivhjkjl I don't think Dave Greenlaw meant pronunciation, but tone; as if "Of course when thinking of 'Romantic Cities with canals' Birmingham is right up there with Venice and Amsterdam, it's just obvious!"
Why do the English hate Birmingham and Liverpool so much lol
Iet me guess
A: Gulf
B: Tributary
C:Strait
Forgive me Patrick if I am wrong
Correct
Oxbow lakes are formed when a river's meander
gets too wibbly, wibbly, wobbly to maintain the course it's on
The main flow of the stream diverts itself accordingly
Leaving the oxbow lake behind
But here's my question son
What the hell's an oxbow ?
Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry ?
Someone to tell me, do I need to buy a shield ?
@@Virtrial Maybe watch this video?
@@recklessroges you dont get it do you?
@@recklessroges bruh it's a song from like 9 years ago ya goof
Now I want pie
Click read more for the answers to the quiz at the end of the video!
A = GULF (Gulf of Venice)
B = TRIBUTARY (Tributaries of the Thames)
C = STRAIT (Palk Strait)
Who got them all right?
b
I got A wrong :(((
A looked more like a bay or cove
me
got b wrong
Similar to "creek" is the word "crick" where, depending upon geographical colloquial usage in different parts of the U.S., can be interchangeable with one another, but in other places one would use crick when referring to a small creek. Another word used in parts of the U.S. to describe small streams is "run"
I think runs are usually used for streams that are seasonal or intermittent in nature. That is when it's dry or during the dry season, the watercourse is dry and empty and water only flows in it after a rainfall.
I thought it was a pain in the back. I guess that’s ‘cause I’m a Nutherner.
My parents are from Nebraska, and everyone in Nebraska says crick, instead of creek. I kinda go back and forth, depending on who I'm talking to. The weird thing is that Denver is very close to the panhandle of Nebraska, but in Denver, nobody says crick (seriously. People even get confused sometimes when I accidentally say crick instead of creek), whereas it is impossible to find anyone that doesn't say crick in Nebraska. It's great.
@@karlfoarile8056 I've seen the name "wash" used for a stream that is intermittent.
Go on down to de crick and pull a tar out of de wooder, then pour some ool on de tar an light de tar on far.
Another vote for the Puget Sound. I've lived minutes from it my whole life.
Not all rivers flow into a sea or ocean.
The Okavango River in Botswana does not flow into any sea or ocean. Instead, all the water flows into a depression and forms the Okavango Delta inland. All the water reaching the delta is ultimately evaporated and transpired and does not flow into any sea or ocean.
The Jordan River flows into the "Dead Sea" which is actually a really big, really salty lake. There is no outlet to the ocean.
It got its name from a British explorer named Peter Puget
I was born and raised in Tacoma. I know Puget Sound and the Narrows well. :)
Okavango river be sad
He made me question my entire existence when he said lakes have to be fresh water while I'm only and hour drive away from Salt Lake city aka the capital of Utah
Dead Sea: Water checks in, it doesn't check out. 😄
The Puget Sound fulfils both definitions.
Like with most things involving sailing and the ocean, a lot of things have different names depending on circumstances. For instance: A rope becomes a line when in general use, a sheet when controlling a sail, a painter when towing, etc; a bunk is a rack if it's used by multiple sailors. Likewise, a bay can become a harbor if used as such and, usually anyway, is inhabited landside.
I assume you meant the "dead sea" instead of the "black sea", since black sea is connected to the mediterranean sea @ 09:56
Patrick really should start checking his work before posting.
But he did mean Black Sea, as you look at his earlier picture of the Mediterranean Sea.
My brain exploded when he said that
Or the Aral Sea, which is close to the Caspian. At least, what is left of the Aral Sea.
The dead sea is a salt lake - its water does not flow any where but evaporates
This leads to the the true error in the video - tht all rivers connect back to the ocean
I deadset was meaning to look this up, what perfect timing
Oxbow lakes are called "Altwasser" in German, which means literally translated old water, since they are old leftover parts of rivers
A few not mentioned Lagoon, Bayou, Branch, Distributary
A bayou is a slow moving coastal river. They originate and terminate on the coastal plane and are often swampy. Buffalo Bayou in Houston Texas is an example.
A distributary is the opposite of a tributary, a smaller river leaving the larger. An example is the Atchafalaya River which breaks away from the Mississippi and drains to the gulf of Mexico in a separate channel.
The Red River wasn't always part of the Mississippi system. Previously it had its own drainage to the Gulf of Mexico. The Red drifted east and the Mississippi drifted west until they met. The Atchafalaya is more or less the Red Rivers old path to the sea. Left on its own, the Mississippi would change course to the Atchafalaya basin. This would be really bad for Baton Rouge and New Orleans, so the Army Corps of Engineers maintains dams and levees to prevent this. But there are also drainage canals from the Mississippi to the Atchafalaya so that during flooding water from the Mississippi can be diverted.
@@piperar2014 those drainage canals are called spillways. I live along Bayou Lafourche, a tributary of the Mississippi.
marsh, swamp, bog freshet, rill, meander, runoff, cataract, inlet, cove, harbor... this could easily have been a 60 minute documentary
@@piperar2014 are you telling me that there is actually a name for those things evey DnD map maker complains about people doing?
Are you saying then that it is a real (althought not common) thing for a river to split somewhere that Isn't it's delta?
billabong is one of my favourite words. its fun to say
I just learned now it wasn't just the name of a clothing brand. 😅
Australian aboriginal languages have given us so many fun to say words. Didgeridoo, wallaby, bunyip, kookaburra, wombat, numbat, woomera...
@@marshallferronlots not forget , gotabungerdare cuz.
As a Yank, I'm a word closer to understanding "Waltzing Matilda".
It’s also an ice cream name lol
In Western Pennsylvania creek is pronounced "crick". Such as "Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick"
Not all rivers empty into the ocean. Any that run to an endorheic basin terminate in whatever body of water is at the bottom, such as the Volga River
to the Caspian Sea.
And the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea
They don't all flow into other bodies of water either.
Depends on the language. In French there is a separate word for rivers that flow into the sea/ocean and rivers that don't.
Yes! This applies to the 209,162-square-mile (541,730 sq km) Great Basin of the USA, which is actually a bunch of smaller basins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin#Hydrology
well technically he did say that they empty into oceans OR SEAS. but don't judje me as i could be mistaken. i like rivers
For the freshwater bodies, I was told that a puddle and a stream/brook you can jump over, a creek/run, and a pond you can throw a rock over and rivers and lakes are even bigger. So when a puddle gets too big to jump over it is a pond no matter how shallow or temporary.
Growing up in Georgia, USA, creeks (or sometimes I heard pronounced as "cricks") were smaller and shallower than streams, with slower moving water.
There's also a run which is just like a river/creek/brooke/etc. But it's source is via a spring.
Streams are defined as flowing water narrow enough to be stepped across by an average sized man. Any body of moving water is a creek, tributary, river, etc.
"Phytotelma" is my new favourite water body name! 😊 Reminds me of the office watercoolers that draw gossipers like flies! 🤣
The Sargasso Sea isn't surrounded by land.
Geography World yeah thats kind of odd
neither are any of the seas on the Moon
@@512TheWolf512 Good point.
Some seas (and even oceans) are distinguished by clearly differing water conditions. The Sargasso Sea is a gyre of the Atlantic Ocean, as it's entirely surrounded by marine currents. These relatively calm waters host the namesake algae, the sargasso. Meanwhile, the distinction between the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean has to do with sea current temperatures, same as the distinction of the Antarctic Ocean versus the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic. The Antarctic Ocean is essentially a vortex of cold currents keeping Antarctica cold and isolated from the other big oceans.
Some seas aren't seas Caspian sea is a lake but called sea bcs of it's size
Spring, an upwell of ground water
Well, a man-made pit to access ground water
Tide Pool - ponds that connect to a larger body of water at high tide, but are separate at low tide
There are a couple of terms used in parts of the UK instead of stream. In much of the North East of England as well as in Scotland, streams get called Burns. Newcastle has the Ouseburn, Pandon Burn, Lort Burn and Skinnerburn, all of which are tributaries of the River Tyne.
A bit further south, down in Yorkshire, the term Beck is used instead of stream.
• 4:38 - A strait is a short cut between land masses; a channel is long, more like a river.
• 11:20 - Ah, yes, the canals of Birmingham are so romantic, they'll make anybody wet.
• 11:30 - Filling your moat with water is for noobs; a pro fills it with lava, because you can't make a infinite lava sources.
• I could have sworn you mentioned a fjord. 🤔
The Bass Strait is not so small or narrow.
Emil Chandran neither is Torres Strait
- so is the Strait of Malacca
Technically, most moats weren't filled with water historically so counting "moat" as the name of a body of water is cheating slightly.
I fill them with lava
In minecraft
And while there is no evidence of there ever being a crocodile filled moat there was one that had bears in it.
@@SilverMe2004 But wasn't that sort of a private zoo.
The term "creek" furnishes me with a good anecdote of how ignorant people exhibit thought processes that are fouled up. My mother and an aunt were driving somewhere when they mentioned a creek. I was about 12. I asked, "whats a creek". Answer from my mother "its a creek". I tried again "whats a creek". Same answer but louder "ITS A CREEK". "But what IS a creek". Then she was getting angry, "Its a creek , you KNOW what a creek is, stop being stupid". Who was being stupid. That always stuck in my memory as an example of an all too common mental set blocking sensible communication.
This is the earliest I have been to a Name Explain video or any video for that matter...
Here are the german names of the bodies of water:
Der Ozean: Just the ocean.
Das Meer: The sea.
Der Golf: a Gulf
Die Bucht: A bay.
Der Busen: A bight. (Only example, I know, is the Jadebusen / Jade Bight).
Der Fluss: A river.
Der Strom: A Stream:
Der Bach: A creek.
Der See: A lake.
Der Teich: A pond.
Sometimes, the names can be used a bit different.
So most sailors say call large bodies of water "die See". And the oceans are called "Weltmeere".
Sometimes, the Atlantic Ocean is called "der große Teich" (the big pond).
Half Eye der see: the lake
Die see: the sea/ocean
You also forgot that we use the word "Sund" and "Belte" from nordic languages, as well as the word "Meeresstraße" and "Meerenge". All of them can be synonymous for "strait", which is why we call it "die Straße von Gibraltar".
Further:
Die Pfütze: A puddle.
Das Wasserloch: An oasis.
Der Wasserlauf: A run of water.
So why is the Baltic sea called "Ostsee" in German? Shouldn't it be "Ostmeer"?
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I don`t really know. But I think it is because of "die See" (its "die Ostsee"). In this context that would make sense.
The same would be true with "die Nordsee". "Das Nordmeer" is, if I`m correct, the ocean, sea or whatever, with the Arctic in it.
Wohin geht Peter? Peter geht an den See. This was the first thing I learned in my high school German class in 1975.
I was so surprised to see Carter Lake, in my home town of Omaha, in your video! I had no idea it was called a Oxbow Lake. This is also a great example of why using geographical formations, like rivers, to set boarders isn't always a good idea. Carter Lake was once part of the Missouri River, which separates Iowa from Nebraska. In 1877 the river flooded and changed course, creating this Oxbow Lake. Now the land south of the lake (known as the City of Carter Lake), is the only City in Iowa that is west of the Missouri River, and is almost completely surrounded by the City of Omaha Nebraska.
Some more additions:
1. Tarn (Small mountain lake in a glacial Corrie.. See Watendlath Tarn).
2. Beck (Small river like a Brook)
3. Mere (Basically a Lake .. e.g. Thirlmere)
Living south central AZ we mostly have washes and runs which would be a creek some of the time but usually is dry
We also have rivers without water (the Santa Cruz River in Tucson). I think that's breaking some rules about what a river is...
I like the Caribbean Sea, it's where you'll find a pirate wondering why's the rum gone
Fjords are cliffs which were carved by glaciers and lead down to bodies of water. The southernmost fjords in The Northern Hemisphere are The Palisades on The Hudson River to The North and West of New York City.
Informative and interesting. Thank you for teaching me something today!
Honestly I'd love to see a video explaining how we came to name the different time periods and eras (like cretaceous, or paleozoic)
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Cove =. A much smaller level of tiny O's
Sound =. A stray/A swimming
Rivers =. A Water way through a landmass
Stream =. A Small/ Narrow/ Shallow river
Tributary =. A tiny stream that flows in A big stream
@7:40 Not all rivers flow back into the sea. Some flow into dry basins. For example, the Truckee River flows from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, which is a salt lake.
By the way, have you heard that Truckee wanted to be named after the local native chief but it found an error. Actually, the nearby Winnemucca was more properly named after the chief. It turns out "truckee" means "hello".
New Zealand also uses “burn” and “awa” for streams due to Scottish and Polynesian influences.
The English Gutter. Sounds like something the French would call it.
Fun Fact: in French, it is called the Sleeve (la Manche).
Phytotelma is my new favorite word! Of course there's a name for the relatively small amount of water a plant can collect. I just never thought to look it up!
Just a bit here. A Pond is shallow enough for the sunlight to penetrate to the bottom, a Lake is deeper. A Stream or Creek is a seasonal flowing body of water, if they don’t stop flowing in the middle of the summer then they are a River.
By that definition Turnback Creek and Spring River are backwards.
Very informative video. Thank you !
I really needed this information
I actually live near Carter Lake! It's so weird, when you're driving to the Omaha airport you pass state lines into Iowa and back into Nebraska in the span of minutes because of the Oxbow Lake.
For delta, I almost think the lower case greek letter works better. It’s a thin, squigly bit that leads ro a large, round bit like a small stream leading to an ocean. δ
Thanks for this channel. It’s very fascinating!
I live on a "pond" that's 80 acres and 60 feet deep. Nearby are "lakes" that are just an acre or two. Mine is not even the largest "pond" in my area. -Northern New England.
My research defines lakes from ponds due to depth and clarity. Ponds allow enough daylight to its bottom to support vegetation, lakes do not support plant life at its deepest part of the bed.
@@damonwilliams5845 I guess my 60 foot deep "pond" is misnamed. That's pretty much what I suspected.
The primary difference between a pond and a lake is that with a pond sunlight penetrates to the bottom over the entirety of the body. Whereas with a lake, there are parts of the bottom sunlight will never hit. The lake near my home is actually quite shallow being only 22 feet at it's deepest point, but since the runoff from the local watershed is tinted by the surrounding vegetation (think of it as a very weak tea) light tends to peter out after only 10-15 feet (depending on the time of year)
You missed out: beck, burn and bourne, (which I talk about when I mention brooks.)
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Don't forget about the English word "mere," which is related to the German word "das Meer," meaning sea. My last name Meares means "one who lives by the mere" (think of the name Brooks).
Thank you 😊
Every creek I've know is a small stream in the middle of a forested area often in mountains. So that might might have something to it.
love it!
A possibly unique usage of "canal" applied to a natural body of water is Hood Canal, which separates the Olympic Peninsula from the Kitsap Peninsula in northwest Washington state in the USA. It's technically a fjord, and was apparently named "Hood's Channel" in honor of Admiral Lord Hood by Captain Vancouver during his explorations. However, he spelt it "Canal" on his nautical charts, and that is the official name later approved by the US Department of the Interior's Board of Geographic Names.
Thanks for this! Some of these are very fascinating, especially pond, tributary, and estuary.
To my understanding a sound is like a bay or a gulf except that it has multiple, disparate, openings to the larger body of water. I think the archetypal sound is Long Island Sound. Puget Sound, on the other hand, strikes me as being more of a bay.
Further, I think a bay has a smaller, not larger, opening to the larger body of water than a gulf does. Good examples are the Chesapeake Bay (my personal favorite), Delaware Bay, and San Francisco Bay (can you tell I'm American by now?). The opening of San Francisco Bay is even a strait (the Golden Gate).
What a fabulous video. Most helpful when helping my son with his homework about different bodies of water.
Little nitpick in the manmade section: moats around castles tend to be mostly dry. Sometimes they're just empty and rely on the height alone, other times there are spikes or thorny bushes. There's even one (known) case of a moat with a family of bears. Water-filled moats are more common with castles built near a larger body of water where you can divert some to fill it. And of course the larger body has to be higher than how high you intend to fill the moat.
I agree moats were typically dry however, castles were typically built near a water source as it is vital to survival. "Ancient" civilizations were far more advanced in water technology than given credit including diverting the water, water storage, and supply protection. They were built to withstand long sieges.
You skipped my favorite body of water. I sense a great disturbance in the fjords...
Thanks so much! Also, I remember your video about borders in oceans, but do oceans and seas have their own borders?
Please make a video about origins of name of fire-related things
Weird how, unlike Portuguese, there seam to be few fire-related words in English. "Fogo", "fogueira" and "incêndio" are all translated as "fire".
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Ignição(ignition)
Useful water-related info. I didn't already know about deltas and estuaries.
that illustration of how an oxbow lake forms is kind of misleading! they're usually formed as the curves of a river grow wider as a result of the water removing sediment from the banks and depositing it further up the curve, eventually leading to the curve growing large enough to intersect itself and thus giving the river a new, more straight forward path. the previous path the river took gets cut off as the water flows down the path of least resistance, leaving behind an oxbow lake.
minute earth has a great video explaining how it works that i recommend checking out!
For streams smaller than creeks, there are various names, some colloquial, that may be mostly North American. There is rill, rivulet, branch, run (mid-Atlantic around Virginia), skill (around New York) and bogue (parts of US south settled by French).
In New Brunswick Canada we had "bogans", presumably related to "bogues". I never knew the exact definition but the examples I knew seemed to be half-formed oxbow lakes where only one end had closed off.
In my part of the US the difference between a creek and a stream is the creak is more prone to dry up. If it has water all year round it is a stream. Streams are tributaries, they will not flow directly to a river.
Apart from size, a lake generally has water flowing in and out of it. While a pond is totally enclosed. The exception is an oxbow lake which is also enclosed but still has water seeping through soil upriver.
the Jordan river flows to the dead sea... not all rivers flow to oceans, they flow to the lowest elevation they can, given a dry enough climate and a large enough area, a river can flow into a lake or "sea" at the same rate or slower then the time it takes for the river to evaporate in that low plain.
I think it's a matter of perspective. I was born and raised in Utah, and ask the rivers I had seen were no more than like, 20 feet wide and 5 feet deep.
Then I moved to Alaska and ran into several 'streams' that were *atleast* five times as big as those dimensions, and the 'rivers' were basically indistinguishable from the ocean or a Lake
A sound is a body of salty or brackish water connected to the ocean that is protected by a barrier island. A good example is the Long Island Sound or Barnegat Sound.
Where I grew up in eastern Canada, on a very big river, you could sail along a reach until you came to an arm.
a sound is a calm body of water typically but not necessary enclosed by land on most sides, the resulting body of water is generally calmer then the rest of the body or water.
an example of a sound that isn't enclosed by water is a river sound, which typically are bodies of water that exists opposite to the flow of water resulting in a stagnant stable body of water connected and fed by a river or lake.
in dutch, an oxbow lake is called "hoefijzermeer", which means horseshoe lake, because of the shape
It's so interesting how many terms for a body of water there is.
Huge nerd here, I knew most of this stuff already. Geography geek.
In time, Wod-Or became Hod-Or
The springs are upset with you for leaving them out 🤣
There’s also vernal pools. They are seasonal ponds (or smaller), bigger than puddles and less temporary.
San Francisco Bay is a ria. It's a river valley, a few rivers actually, that flooded when the glacial period came to a close and sea level rose. The Farallon Islands 20 miles offshore were actually hills on the old shoreline. The water only gets to about 60-80 feet deep until you get to the islands.
In the North of England (maybe Scotland as well?) we use 'burn' for a small stream/ brook
In parts of Appalachia in the US we call those a "run". E. g., I live above Harts Run, which rises from a small spring on my neighbor's property that some past settler turned into a small pond with an earthen dam.
In much of the American southwest, the difference between a river and a stream is the volume of water that it carries, and a creek is seasonal while a stream flows year round. Different states have different definitions.
For me, here in Michigan, a river, I can't walk across. Stream yes. Creek, not always flowing, more of a drainage from one body to another.
A great example of a sound is the Puget Sound in the Seattle area
6:58 A good example of a sound is Long Island Sound, located to the north of New York's Long Island. 🙂
I have also heard of the word "tarn" meaning a mountain lake.
Good job
In the UK, a "creek" is traditionally a stream that has a tide. Barking Creek off the River Thames in East London for instance.
Inland from the Puget Sound, we also have a lot of sloughs. I assume these are like canals, being man made sections of rivers or creeks.
Estuary =. A Tital Marsh
Delta =. Tiny streams that rivers split into
Brook =. A Marsh or Bog
Lake =. Water that is entirely surrounded by land
Pond =. A small amount of water from rain
Canal =. Entirely man made rivers
Moat =. Deep water full pits around castle's
Pretty thorough job Patrick! ...can any of you think of bodies of water he missed? Like a fall, an inlet, a lagoon, a cape, a swamp, a marsh or a bayou?
Some of these bodies of waters are subcategories or types of other bodies of water. I think a stream through a forest or wooded area is a creek. And a very narrow and shallow small creek is a brook. I think a very small private cove that may feature a lot of lush foliage and even a waterfall would be a lagoon.
Sund in Danish also can mean fit or healthy, and you can sunde (m/d/s)ig, or rest (my/your/them)self. But the geographical term is related to svømme, or swim, and so refers to a water passage that lays between an island and the mainland or another island that can be swam over.
Washington state has the Puget Sound where Seattle is located, within there is the Strait of Juan de Fuca which is also apparently the Salish Sea..... There is also a place called the Nisqually Reach. Is a reach another body of water?
A channel's main trait is being moderately narrow and visibly long, while straits are incredibly narrow and incredibly short
sea seption: Alboran Sea->Mediteranian Sea->Agean Sea->Sea of Marmaram->Black Sea->Sea of Azov
My Source: www.pmfias.com/marginal-seas-bay-gulf-strait-isthmus/
In Australia we have Lagoons. I believe this is another word for estuary. As they are also can be described as marshland as well.
Patrick: lakes are freshwater, seas are salt water.
The Great Salt Lake: Allow me to introduce myself
Pugent sound is like the first thing I thought of when you said sound it may just be because I love in the U.S. but pretty sure a lot of people think of it because of Seattle