Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England (Great Britain)

A fjord (Lysefjorden) in Norway

River Gambia flowing through Niokolokoba National Park

Port Jackson, Sydney, Australia

A tide pool on Gabriola Island, British Columbia showing ochre sea stars

A body of water is any significant accumulation of water such as an ocean, a lake, or a river, usually covering the Earth or another planet. Some bodies of water can be man-made, or artificial, such as a pond, lake or harbor, but most are naturally occurring geographical features. Bodies of water that are navigable are known as waterways. Some bodies of water collect and move water, such as rivers and streams, and others primarily hold water, such as lakes and oceans. The term 'body of water' can also refer to a reservoir of water held by a plant, technically known as a phytotelma. In common usage, the term 'body of water' is usually used to refer only to a large accumulations of water, such as oceans, seas and lakes. It is less commonly used to refer to smaller pools of water such as ponds, puddles or wetlands. Rivers, streams, canals and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are not always considered bodies of water, but are included here as geographical formations featuring water. Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England. ... Lulworth Cove, Dorset, England. ... Aerial view of Lulworth Cove Lulworth Cove is not a cove near the village of West Lulworth, on the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in Dorset, south England. ... Dorset (pronounced DOR-sit or [dɔ.sət], and sometimes in the past called Dorsetshire) is a county in the south-west of England, on the English Channel coast. ... Motto (French) God and my right Anthem No official anthem specific to England — the anthem of the United Kingdom is God Save the Queen. See also Proposed English National Anthems. ... The fjord Lysefjorden as seen from Kjerag Photo by: Ove Hetland Taken from: http://www. ... The fjord Lysefjorden as seen from Kjerag Photo by: Ove Hetland Taken from: http://www. ... The Lysefjord from Kjerag The Lysefjord from Lysebotn Lysefjord (or Lysefjorden, the suffix -en is a form of the definite article in the Norwegian language) is a fjord located in Ryfylke in south-western Norway. ... Image File history File links River_gambia_Niokolokoba_National_Park. ... Image File history File links River_gambia_Niokolokoba_National_Park. ... The Gambia River is a major river in Africa, running 1,130 km (700 miles) from the Fouta Djallon plateau in north Guinea to the Atlantic Ocean at the city of Banjul. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (864x512, 234 KB)This is an image I took myself using an Olympus C8080W digital camera. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (864x512, 234 KB)This is an image I took myself using an Olympus C8080W digital camera. ... “Sydney Harbour” redirects here. ... The Sydney Opera House on Sydney Harbour Sydney (pronounced ) is the most populous city in Australia, with a metropolitan area population of approximately 4. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 745 KB) Taken on Gabriola Island, British Columbia in 2004 by user:Clayoquot File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high-resolution version (2048x1536, 745 KB) Taken on Gabriola Island, British Columbia in 2004 by user:Clayoquot File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Gabriola Island (49°9′N 123°47′W) is an island on the West coast of British Columbia, Canada between mainland BC and Vancouver Island. ... Impact from a water drop causes an upward rebound jet surrounded by circular capillary waves. ... Animated map exhibiting the worlds oceanic waters. ... Blowdown Lake in the mountains near Pemberton, British Columbia A lake (from Latin lacus) is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ... This bridge across the Danube River links Hungary with Slovakia. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Look up artificial in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Two people reflected in a fish pond A pond is typically a man made body of water smaller than a lake. ... Blowdown Lake in the mountains near Pemberton, British Columbia A lake (from Latin lacus) is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ... For other uses, see Harbor (disambiguation). ... Table of geography, hydrography, and navigation, from the 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... ... The pitchers of Nepenthes rajah act as phytotelmata. ...

Types of bodies of water

• 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 coastal 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.
• 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 a relative rise in sea level.
• 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.
• 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 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. 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.
• 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 - typically a man-made body of water smaller than a lake.
• Puddle - a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, uncontained on a surface, usually the ground.
• 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.
• 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).

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Big Cypress Bayou in Jefferson, Texas off of U.S. Route 59. ... Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria A stream, brook, beck, burn or creek, is a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks. ... In geography, bight has two meanings. ... Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria A stream, brook, beck, burn or creek, is a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks. ... In Scotland, and to some extent in North East England, burn is a name for a stream which is less than a river. ... The Canal du Midi, Toulouse, France Canals are artificial channels for water. ... In physical geography, a channel is the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks. ... The bed of this stream is made up of rocks, some very rounded (having had a longer life in the stream) and some not. ... Insert non-formatted text here Lulworth Cove, Dorset England This article is about the coastal feature. ... A landform comprises a geomorphological unit. ... Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria A stream, brook, beck, burn or creek, is a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks. ... In United Kingdom usage, the term creek refers exclusively to a tidal water channel. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... An arroyo is a dry creek bed or gulch that fills with water either seasonally, or after a heavy rain. ... Rio de la Plata estuary Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Estuaries An estuary is 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 is the Scots word used to denote various coastal waters in Scotland. ... Fjord in Sunnmøre, Norway Fjords are very long inlets from the sea with high steeply sloped walled sides. ... The bay at San Sebastián, Spain A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. ... For other uses, see Harbor (disambiguation). ... Italian Full rigged ship Amerigo Vespucci in New York Harbor, 1976 A ship is a large watercraft capable of offshore navigation. ... Lulworth Cove in Dorset, England (Great Britain) A fjord (Lysefjorden) in Norway An inlet is a body of water, usually seawater, which has characteristics of one or more of the following: a bay a cove an estuary a firth a fjord a geo a sea loch a sea lough a... Annual mean sea surface salinity for the World Ocean. ... As a body of water, a kill is a creek. ... “NY” redirects here. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Trenton Largest city Newark Area  Ranked 47th  - Total 8,729 sq mi (22,608 km²)  - Width 70 miles (110 km)  - Length 150 miles (240 km)  - % water 14. ... This mid bay barrier in Narrabeen, a suburb of Sydney (Australia), has blocked what used to be a bay to form a lagoon. ... A sandbank is a patch of sand in water, which creates a shallow area which may pose a hazard to boats. ... Some of the biodiversity of a coral reef, in this case the Great Barrier Reef, Australia. ... Blowdown Lake in the mountains near Pemberton, British Columbia A lake (from Latin lacus) is a body of water or other liquid of considerable size contained on a body of land. ... View across Loch Lomond, towards Ben Lomond. ... Above and below water view at the edge of the mangal. ... Freshwater marsh in Florida In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, cat tails, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. ... An Atlantic coastal salt marsh in Connecticut. ... A milldam is a dam constructed on a waterway to create a millpond. ... ... Watermill of Braine-le-Château, Belgium (12th century) A watermill is a structure that uses a water wheel or turbine to drive a mechanical process such as flour or lumber production, or metal shaping (rolling, grinding or wire drawing). ... The moated manor house of Baddesley Clinton in Warwickshire, England Moats (also known as a Fosse) were deep and wide water-filled trenches, excavated to provide a barrier against attack upon castle ramparts or other fortifications. ... Animated map exhibiting the worlds oceanic waters. ... The pitchers of Nepenthes rajah act as phytotelmata. ... Look up pool in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... One famous reflecting pool lies between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.. A reflecting pool is a structure often used in memorials. ... Two people reflected in a fish pond A pond is typically a man made body of water smaller than a lake. ... A puddle in a forest clearing A water puddle on a Danish beach A puddle is a small accumulation of liquid, usually water, uncontained on a surface. ... ... This bridge across the Danube River links Hungary with Slovakia. ... Look up run in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An Atlantic coastal salt marsh in Connecticut. ... Freshwater marsh in Florida In geography, a marsh is a type of wetland, featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, cat tails, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low-growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water. ... For the three letter acronym, see SEA. For the ancient Jewish unit of volume, see Seah (unit). ... The Caspian Sea (Russian: Каспийское море; Kazakh: Каспий теңізі; Turkmen: Hazar deňizi; Azeri: XÉ™zÉ™r dÉ™nizi; Persian: دریای خزر Daryā-ye Khazar) is the largest lake on Earth by area[2], with a surface area of 371,000 square kilometers (143,244 sq mi) and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometers (18... The Dead Sea (‎, yam ha-melaħ, Sea of Salt; Quranic Arabic: , baħrᵘ l- mayitⁱ [3], Death Sea) is a salt lake between the West Bank and Israel to the west, and Jordan to the east. ... A loch is the name given to a body of water in Scotland or Ireland. ... Look up Lough in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Please see also Loch A Lough is a body of water and either: a lake or; b sea lough, which may be perceived also as a fjord, estuary, bay or sea inlet. ... The term slough (in the UK, pronounced to rhyme with cow; In the US, pronounced slew) has several meanings related to wetland or aquatic features that seem to derive from local experience. ... [[ == Headline text == This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A natural spring on Mackinac Island in Michigan. ... // For other uses of sound, see sound (disambiguation). ... A natural spring on Mackinac Island in Michigan. ... Groundwater is water located beneath the ground surface in soil pore spaces and in the fractures of lithologic formations. ... An aquifer is an underground layer of water-bearing permeable rock or unconsolidated materials (gravel, sand, silt, or clay) from which groundwater can be usefully extracted using a water well. ... Simplified diagram A strait is a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses. ... Butchers Creek, Omeo, Victoria A stream, brook, beck, burn or creek, is a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks. ... A subglacial lake is a lake that is permanently covered by ice. ... Lake Vostoks location within Antarctica (NASA) Lake Vostok is the largest of more than 70 subglacial lakes in Antarctica. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A tide pool on Gabriola Island, British Columbia showing ochre sea stars Tide pools (also tidal pools or rock pools) are rocky pools by oceans that are filled with seawater. ... Vernal pools occur in North, Central and Southern California, with the largest found in San Diego. ... An arroyo is a dry creek bed or gulch that fills with water either seasonally, or after a heavy rain. ... A subtropical wetland in Florida, USA, with an endangered American Crocodile. ...

See Also

• Waterway
• Port

Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 The Port of Wellington at night. ...

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