According to quora, a bay is a body of water, coastal or otherwise, with a single connection to a single larger body of water while a sound is a coastal waterway that connects in two or more places to one or more bodies of water.
I'm not sure that's correct though because then there would be no difference between sound and fjord.
Also by that definition would the Puget Sound not be a sound?
Fjord:
Valley created by glacier flow that is the filled with water to create islands
Sound:
Natural Valley produced by underground movement filled with water to create islands
God my teacher used this image to teach us all the geography terms. Instant memories of certain sections being blown up to the point where you could count the pixels.
Apparently it's to do with what they're made of. A geologist can and should correct me, but I think mesas are made of flat layers of different rocks, and plateus are made of a single solid material
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Show more butte
Mesa likey
Settle down there, Jar Jar.
This guide missed a steppe
And a savannah
I was hoping to see both Gulch and Gully!
And where's dale? For god's sake, what the heck is a dale?!
I CERTAINLY DONT SEE A HOLLER
How about creeks and streams? Ephemeral ponds? Hot springs?
and moors? Glades?
What distinguishes a bay from a sound? What is the difference between a channel and a strait?
According to quora, a bay is a body of water, coastal or otherwise, with a single connection to a single larger body of water while a sound is a coastal waterway that connects in two or more places to one or more bodies of water.
Interesting, that would make the depiction of a sound in the picture incorrect.
I'm not sure that's correct though because then there would be no difference between sound and fjord. Also by that definition would the Puget Sound not be a sound?
Fjord: Valley created by glacier flow that is the filled with water to create islands
Sound: Natural Valley produced by underground movement filled with water to create islands
Are you asking cause this picture seems to say they are the same thing or because you want to know? Haha
I want to move to this fictional place now!
Every open world game map
God my teacher used this image to teach us all the geography terms. Instant memories of certain sections being blown up to the point where you could count the pixels.
How do I actually pronounce archipelago?
I see it in text but I've never heard a human say it out loud.
Is it soft like Archie, or hard like arch? Is "Lago" like Lago or Lego?
Ar-keh-pell-ah-go is how I've always heard it.
It's a hard K sound and the i and a are "uh" (ə) sounds. Like "Ark uh pel uh go" (at least in my accent).
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/archipelago
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Okay... I've been pronouncing it wrong... like arki-pel-Ah-go
Me too.
And many other people.
I'm not changing. 😁
I've always pronounced it "ark-e-pell-ago" but I think "ar hie-pell-ago" is equally correct. The ego/ago thing is the same.
I'll keep saying ar-chih-puh-LAH-go because I don't actually plan on every saying it out loud to anyone
Such a throwback, my dad had this poster in the hall at little kid height and i remember sitting and looking at it and wanting to be a geologist
no, I majored in math and now I'm a software engineer xD
Difference between river and strait?
Strait is connecting two large bodies of water while a river is what drains a land mass. Something like that.
I had this exact poster up in my classroom back when I taught 4th grade.
The lack of estuary is why places like the San Francisco Bay are misnamed.
what differentiates a cape from a peninsula
Or a sound from a bay
That butte does not match the buttes I've seen in real life. Then again, I've only seen the ones near my parents, in Oregon.
So, being from the south, where is "bluff" and "creek"?
What's the difference between a plateau and a mesa?
Apparently it's to do with what they're made of. A geologist can and should correct me, but I think mesas are made of flat layers of different rocks, and plateus are made of a single solid material
i think mesa is fully surrounded by lower land but plateau just has to be elevated and flat, could be connected to other highlands.