- Creek - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally.
- Basin - a region of land where water from rain or snowmelt drains downhill into another body of water, such as a river, lake, or dam.
- Bay - an area of water bordered by land on three sides.
- Billabong - a pond or still body of water created when a river changes course and some water becomes trapped. Australian.
- Brook - a small stream.
- Burn - a small stream.
- Canal - a man-made waterway,
- Channel - the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks.
- Creek - a small stream.
- Creek (tidal) - an inlet of the sea, narrower than a cove.
- Draw - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally.
- Estuary - a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea
- Glacier - A large collection of ice or a frozen river that moves slowly down a mountain.
- Harbor - a man-made or naturally occurring body of water where ships are stored
- Inlet - a body of water, usually seawater, which has characteristics of one or more of the following: bay, cove, estuary, firth fjord, geo, sea loch, or sound.
- Kettle - a shallow, sediment-filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters.
- Lagoon - a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar feature.
- Lake - a body of water or other liquid, but usually freshwater, of considerable size contained on a body of land.
- Loch - a body of water such as a lake, sea inlet, firth, fjord, estuary or bay.
- Mangrove swamp - Saline costal habitat of mangrove trees and shrubs.
- Marsh - a wetland featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water.
- Moat - a deep, broad trench, filled with water, surrounding a structure, installation, or town.
- Ocean - a major body of saline water that, in totality, covers about 71% of the Earth's surface.
- Pool - a small body of water such as a swimming pool, reflecting pool, pond, or puddle.
- Pond - a body of water smaller than a lake, especially those of man-made origin.
- Puddle - a small accumulation of water on a surface, usually the ground.
- Rapid - a fast moving part of a river
- Reservoir - an artificial lake, used to store water for various uses.
- River - a natural waterway usually formed by water derived from either precipitation or glacial meltwater, and flows from higher ground to lower ground.
- Run - a small stream or part thereof, especially a smoothly flowing part of a stream.
- Salt marsh - a type of marsh that is a transitional zone between land and an area, such as a slough, bay, or estuary, with salty or brackish water.
- Sea - a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea. In common usage, often synonymous to ocean.
- Spring - a point where groundwater flows out of the ground, and is thus where the aquifer surface meets the ground surface
- Stream - a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks.
- Subglacial lake - a lake that is permanently covered by ice and whose water remains liquid by the pressure of the ice sheet and geothermal heating. They often occur under glaciers or ice caps. Lake Vostok in Antarctica is an example.
- Swamp - a wetland that features permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water, generally with a substantial number of hummocks, or dry-land protrusions.
- Tarn - a mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier.
- Tide pool - a rocky pool adjacent to an ocean and filled with seawater.
- Wash - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally.
Monday, October 19, 2009
Kettle Basin Brook Burn ...What are these?
During road trips, trails, camping experiences we always come across so many names for water bodies.All the words mentioned in the title are water bodies.I've always wondered the difference between them.Its nice to know what they actually mean and how a creek may be different from a brook etc.Below are some common water bodies with a small description..
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