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Bodies of Water

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A water route through north America to Asia?

The Northwest Passage is a sea route that connects the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. It has historically been impassable due to sea ice, but with the melting of Arctic ice, the passage is becoming more accessible for navigation. It provides a shorter route for ships traveling between North America and Asia compared to the traditional route through the Panama Canal.

Whats a Bay?

A bayou is a small, slow moving stream or creek. Bayous are usually located in flat, low-lying areas. Many bayous are home to crawfish,shrimp, shellfish and catfish. The word bayou was first recorded used by the French in Louisiana. Bayou is thought to originate from the Choctow Indian word bayuk which means "small stream".

What two countries are connected by the English Channel?

Actually, the English Channel separates England and France. The Channel Tunnel, or Chunnel, connects England and France.

English channel connects England and France. It connects the southern part of England with western France.

Pretty sure its France and The U.k(England)... I could be wrong

How deep is Loch Linnhe?

LOCH LINNHE IS ABOUT 450 FEET DEEP WHICH IS DEEPER THAN THE NORTH SEA.

What is the narrow strip of water at the southern tip of Spain?

The narrow strip of water at the southern tip of Spain is called the Strait of Gibraltar. It separates the southern coast of Spain from the northern coast of Morocco and connects the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea.

What two bodies of water border Columbia?

The Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean via the Caribbean Sea.

High watermark definition?

A high watermark is the peak value that an investment fund or account has reached over time. It represents the highest historical value that the fund or account has attained before declining. It is used to determine the performance fees that fund managers may charge.

Types of springs?

Common types of springs include compression springs, extension springs, torsion springs, and leaf springs. Compression springs are used to absorb and store energy, while extension springs are designed to stretch and store energy. Torsion springs exert rotational force, and leaf springs are flat strips of metal used to support and dampen vibrations in vehicles.

What are the different types of water springs?

The different types of water springs are artesian springs, natural springs, geyser springs, and seep springs. Artesian springs are pressurized and occur when groundwater flows to the surface due to geological formations. Natural springs are formed when groundwater rises to the surface through permeable rock layers. Geyser springs are characterized by intermittent eruptions of hot water and steam. Seep springs are small, slow-flowing springs that emerge from the ground due to underground water sources.

How can you identify an element from its name and formulae?

To identify an element from its name, you can refer to the periodic table where elements are listed by their names. From its formula, you can identify the element by breaking down the formula to see which elements are present and their proportions. Additionally, you can use reference materials such as chemistry textbooks or online resources to cross-reference the name and formula to determine the element.

A lake in South Island with a power station?

Lake Manapouri is a lake in South Island with a power station. The lake is situated within the Fiordland National Park and the wider region of Te Waipounamu South West New Zealand World Heritage Area.

What are the different types of bodies of water like the ocean lake etc?

Types of bodies of water Note that there are some geographical features involving water that are not bodies of water, for example waterfalls and geysers.

  • Arm of the sea - also sea arm, used to describe a sea loch.
  • Arroyo (creek) - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally.
  • Barachois - a lagoon separated from the ocean by a sand bar
  • 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.
  • Bayou - a small, slow-moving stream or creek.
  • Beck - a small stream.
  • Bight - a large and often only slightly receding bay, or a bend in any geographical feature.
  • Billabong - a pond or still body of water created when a river changes course and some water becomes trapped. Australian.
  • Boil - a body of water formed by a spring.
  • Brook - a small stream.
  • Burn - a small stream.
  • Canal - a man-made waterway, usually connected to (and sometimes connecting) existing lakes, rivers, or oceans.
  • Channel - the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks. See also stream bed and strait.
  • Cove - a coastal landform. Earth scientists generally use the term to describe a circular or round inlet with a narrow entrance, though colloquially the term is sometimes used to describe any sheltered bay.
  • Creek - a small stream.
  • Creek (tidal) - an inlet of the sea, narrower than a cove.
  • Dam - a barrier across flowing water that obstructs, directs or slows down the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment. The word "dam" can also refer to the reservoir rather than the structure.
  • 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
  • Firth - the Scots word used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland. It is usually a large sea bay, estuary, inlet, or strait.
  • Fjord (fiord) - a submergent landform which has occurred due to glacial activity.
  • Glacier - A large collection of ice or a frozen river that moves slowly down a mountain.
  • Gulf - a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides, similar to, but larger than a bay.
  • Harbor - a man-made or naturally occurring body of water where ships are stored or may shelter from the ocean's weather and currents.
  • 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.
  • Kill - used in areas of Dutch influence in New York, New Jersey and other areas of the former New Netherland colony of Dutch America to describe a strait, river, or arm of the sea.
  • 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 coastal 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. See also Salt marsh.
  • Millpond - a reservoir built to provide flowing water to a watermill
  • 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.
  • Oxbow Lake - a U-shaped lake formed when a wide meander from the mainstem of a river is cut off to create a lake.
  • Phytotelma - a small, discrete body of water held by some plants.
  • 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.
  • Sea loch - a sea inlet loch.
  • Sea lough - a fjord, estuary, bay or sea inlet.
  • Slough (wetland) - the word slough has several meanings related to wetland or aquatic features.
  • Source (river or stream) - the original point from which the river or stream flows. A river's source is sometimes a spring.
  • Sound - a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land.
  • Spring - a point where groundwater flows out of the ground, and is thus where the aquifer surface meets the ground surface
  • Strait - a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses.
  • 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.
  • Vernal pool - a shallow, natural depression in level ground, with no permanent above-ground outlet, that holds water seasonally.
  • Wash - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally.
  • Wetland - an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and truly aquatic systems making them different from each yet highly dependent on both" (Mitsch & Gosselink, 1986).

What is a famous example of a spit?

An famous example of a spit is spurn head which forms the north bank of the humber estuary

What are all of the gulfs?

Here's some i found in an atlas:

Gulf of Oman

The Gulf

Gulf of Thailand

Gulf of Carpentaria

Gulf of Tongking

Gulf of Papua

Itaurakia Gulf

Gulf of st Vincent

Gulf of Mexico

Gulf of st Laurance

Gulf of Panama

Gulf or California

Gulf of Penis

Gulf of Fronseca

Gulf of Chirqui

Gulf of Nicoya

Gulf of Mosquitos

Gulf of Cupica

Gulf of Hondoras

Gulf of Venezuella

Gulf of Daren

Gulf of Tehuantepec

Golfo San Matias

Gulf of lions

Gulf of Finland

Gulf of masirah

Gulf of adem

Golfo de san jorge

Gulf of sirte

Gulf of Gabes

Gulf of seuz

Gulf of Bothnia

Gulf of Aquba

Gulf of Taganrog

Gulf of Karkinitsky

Gulf of Genoa

Gulf of Antalya

Gulf of Gascony

Gulf of Tona

Gizhiga Gulf

Gulf of Anadya

Gulf of Bothnia

Pechora Gulf

Gulf of ob

Amuden Gulf

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What is an artificial lake in which large quantities of water are stored?

A reservoir is an artificial lake where water is stored. Reservoirs are typically created by constructing dams across rivers or streams to capture and store water for various purposes such as drinking water supply, irrigation, and hydroelectric power generation.

What is an artificial lake in which large quantities of water are stored and very often it is part of a river with a dam controlling its flow?

A reservoir is an artificial lake created by constructing a dam on a river to capture and store water. Reservoirs are often used for water supply, irrigation, hydroelectric power generation, and flood control.

What is a section of an ocean or sea partly surrounded by land?

A bay is a section of an ocean or sea that is partly surrounded by land. Bays are typically formed by the erosion of land by the water, creating a sheltered area that is often used as harbors for ships.

Major landforms in denmark?

Basically flat. The highest berg in Denmark is approximately 175 meters above water surface, which is not much. In the middle of Jylland, which is the biggest part of Denmark, there can be a lot of hills. It can be very annoying if you're going for a bicycle trip, but never the less: it's very flat.

What is a chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean called?

A chain of islands clustered together in a sea or ocean is called an archipelago.

What is the narrow body of water west of Greenland?

The main two being the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, but these have been split into seas so you could say four bodies of water surround Greenland. Those being the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, the Greenland Sea to the east, the Arctic Ocean to the north, and Baffin Bay to the west.

What is the name for inland passage for ocean going ships?

The name for an inland passage for ocean-going ships is a "strait." This geographical feature is a narrow body of water that connects two larger bodies of water, allowing ships to pass through. It is often an important route for maritime transportation.

Where is Chatham Strait?

Chatham Strait is a narrow passage of the Alexander Archipelago in the south-eastern region of the U.S. state of Alaska.