Small Bodies of Water

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Although small ponds may appear insignificant to us, though, they actually play a crucial role in many ecosystems as they support amphibians, like frogs and salamanders. Human-made ponds are also quite common, particularly as landscaping features. 31. Puddle Giants chunks of ice may not be exactly what comes to mind when you picture a lagoon, and yet the largest lagoon in Iceland is a beautiful pool of stunning multicolored icebergs formed by melting glaciers. (Photo: Daniel Knieper/CC BY-ND 2.0) The largest body of water on Earth, oceans are massive collections of saltwater that span approximately 71% of the planet’s total surface areas. Boasting glistening blue waters, tarns are small, alpine lakes. Unlike regular alpine lakes, though, tarns form in glacially-carved cirques and they’re often bounded on multiple sides by glacial moraines. A hazy memory: an indoor swimming pool with high ceilings and a pink water slide spiralling down into the deep end. Every half hour, mechanised waves gently roll the water from one end to another, making our hips sway.

A firth (#43) a regional word used in Scotland, is similar in that it’s a narrow inlet of the sea, or a large sea bay, or long arm of the sea. A fjord (#44) is a long, narrow inlet flanked by steep cliffs on three sides and is connected to the sea. It’s formed when a glacier cuts a U-shaped valley below sea level that fills with sea when the glacier retreats. They’re common along the Norwegian coast, an elongated arm of the sea that’s longer than it is wide. The first edition of Wetlands by Mitsch and Gosselink was published in 1986 by Van Nostrand Reinhold. Second, third, and fourth (current) editions were published in 1993, 2000, and 2007 respectively by John Wiley & Sons. "Wiley: Wetlands, 4th Edition". Archived from the original on 3 July 2012 . Retrieved 10 July 2012. So, without further ado, here are the 47 types of bodies of water that give life to our wonderful planet Earth: 1. Arroyo An intricately carved Viking church overlooks the glistening Lustrafjord, one of Norway’s greatest bodies of water. (Photo: Micha L. Rieser/CC BY-SA 2.0)

a water feature usually consisting of a shallow pool of water, undisturbed by fountain jets, for a reflective surface. The word “ inlet” is a generic term for any connection between two larger bodies of water. It is usually used to refer to a narrow entrance to a bay, harbor, lagoon, or another sheltered area. There are both inland and tidal wetlands. As the name suggests, inland wetlands are found away from coastal environments, usually along the floodplain of a river or stream. But, they can also be found in isolated areas, such as a valley.

In the winter of 1933/4 Ritter, an Austrian painter and self-proclaimed “housewife”, makes the radical decision to join her hunter-trapper husband and a Norwegian hunter in Arctic Spitsbergen, living together in a tiny hut. Often alone for long spells, her mundane chores and her will to survive the extremes uncover marvels, both in the place and her spirit. The imagistic prose is exhilarating. Written as a journal – with long periods tellingly absent – we witness her transformation as she relinquishes herself to this place.It’s also worth mentioning that some parts of the United Kingdom will use the word creek to refer to a tidal inlet along the ocean. However, this is an uncommon use of the term. 13. Delta The Heath is my neat portion of wilderness; the Heath is my new home. I walk in awe under the ancient oaks. I collect red-veined leaves and tiny pine cones fallen from alder trees. Wanting to be able to describe things accurately, I learn the names of trees that have featured in the pictures of stories I’ve read since childhood but never seen in real life. The words sound almost mythical to me now: alder, hazel, yew, ash. I look up names of birds commonly found on the Heath: siskin, coot, moorhen, redwing, mistlethrush, kestrel. They taste strange to me, like made-up words from English nursery rhymes, foreign compared to the birds I am used to: tūī, pukeko, kākā, ruru, takahē.

creek". Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, LLC . Retrieved 18 May 2019. U.S., Canada , and Australia…a stream smaller than a river. What happens when we listen to the voices which make a place? How might we feel our entanglements with the world to know it as home and treat it as such, even when we are unsure where we belong to? These books, many with a focus on the far north and spanning nearly a century, have inspired how I explore this interplay between place, people, living, thought and the body. The term channel is generally used to describe wide waterways that flow between two islands or other landmasses. Channels can also be called straits, though the term strait is usually reserved for much larger channels. The water radical 水, radical number 85 out of 214, is one of the most common in written Chinese. It forms part of thousands of characters, most of them relating to water, such as snow, river, tears, to swim, to wash, to float, to soak. And there are some that don’t directly relate, mostly verbs: to live, to exist, to concentrate, to mix, to strain. Scrolling through Pleco, the free dictionary app used by Mandarin learners everywhere, I find so many water-radical words that there could be enough for an entire language of water radicals. I begin to see it. It’s an inherited language, one I’ve carried inside me all along, one where I’m no longer perpetually caught in-between. It has no distinction between past and present tense, nor between singular and plural; as a result it contains all the places I call home, as well as all my memories and all my names. I float, I strain, I swim. Nature writing lovers will adore this collection of lyrical essays … Traversing Borneo to New Zealand to North London, it explores what bodies of water have meant to [Powles] while navigating girlhood and growing up”There are many sea lochs in Scotland, most of which are located along the western coast of the island. Some of the most famous sea lochs include Loch Nevis, Loch Fyne, and Loch Eil. Bodies of water are affected by gravity, which is what creates the tidal effects. [3] Moreso, the impact of climate change on water is likely to intensify as observed through the rising sea levels, water acidification and flooding. This means that climate change has pressure on water bodies. [4] Types [ edit ] While walking through a marsh isn’t always very fun, marshes are an important habitat for many species. They are particularly vital habitats for waterfowl, amphibians, and even fish, all of whom find a safe haven in calm marshy waters. 27. Moat Mr. Mehner, your newly launched EU project PONDERFUL is all about small freshwater ecosystems. This involves you taking a close look at an area in northeast Germany. How beneficial are kettle holes and pools not only there, but elsewhere, too? The English language has various ways of defining places where the sea projects inland—either as an indent in the shoreline like a bay or gulf, or as a more narrow water passage opening from the coastline. The common term for this is an inlet (#41), also called an arm of the sea or sea arm (#42).

a shallow, natural depression in level ground, with no permanent above-ground outlet, that holds water seasonally.

Arroyos, which are sometimes called washes, tend to be dry throughout most of the year. They usually have sandy creek beds that flood during thunderstorms and other types of severe weather. A gulf is a type of very large ocean inlet. Most people would use the term gulf to refer to bodies of water that are larger than a bay, like the Gulf of Mexico, but this usage varies from place to place. Marsh: a perpetually waterlogged area of low-lying land that floods as a result of rain or tidal shifts, and usually features large herbaceous plants, reeds, rushes, and grasses. Regardless of where you live in the world, chances are pretty high that you’ve seen a lake before you in your life. That being said, estuaries tend to be quite delicate as slight changes in the salt concentration or pH of these ecosystems can throw the entire region into biological disarray. Therefore, many of the world’s estuaries are protected, but more work is needed to protect these fragile areas from natural and human-caused disasters, like oil spills. 16. Firth