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What is the shallow water body separated from the sea by the sand bar known as?
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A shallow body of water that is separated from the open sea?
A shallow body of water that is separated from the open sea is called a lagoon. Lagoons are also commonly referred to as back reefs.
What is the shallow body of water separated from the sea by coral reefs or sandbars called?
Lagoon
What is a shallow body of water along a shore often separated from the sea by a sandbar or reefs.?
Lagoon
What does the word lagoon mean?
# A shallow body of water, especially one separated from a sea by sandbars or coral reefs. # A shallow body of liquid waste material, as one in a dump.
What is the shallow water body bordering the continents?
It is known as the continental shelf.
What is a shalow body of water that has on opening to the ocean?
A lagoon is a shallow body of water that features an opening to the ocean or larger body of water. A lagoon is often separated from these larger bodies of water by barrier islands or reefs.
A body of water encircled by a coral reef?
A body of water that is encircled by a coral reef is called a lagoon. A lagoon is usually shallow and is separated from the ocean by coral reefs, barrier islands, or sandbars.
What is a name for a shallow body of water?
Pond
What is a shallow body of water that opens into a larger body of water that starts with L?
a Lagoon.
What two continents are not separated by a body of water?
Europe and Asia are not separated by a body of water. North and South America are separated by the Panama Canal(?). Africa and Asia are separated by the Suez Canal.
How is a lagoon formed?
A lagoon forms when a body of water is enclosed behind a barrier reef. It can also form together with the formation of an atoll, it being the body of water in the middle of the atoll. A lagoon is a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water separated from the deeper sea.
What are the bodies of fresh water that have little to no flow and are very shallow?
A shallow body of fresh water could be described as a pond.
