Small Bodies of Water

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bourn". oxforddictionaries.com. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on September 30, 2016 . Retrieved 16 May 2019. In the concrete city of Shanghai, the over-chlorinated pool became our sanctuary. It sparkled aquamarine against a skyline of dust. We were thirteen, almost fourteen, but underwater we still pretended we were something other than human. Or maybe we weren’t pretending at all. Underwater everything was different, bathed in holy silence and blue echoes. The slanted windows cast wavering lines of liquid light beneath the surface. We felt the way our bodies moved, lithe and strong and new. We pushed off from the edge into the blue again and again, diving deeper and deeper each time. Small urban water bodies are very diverse, ranging from well-maintained park ponds to virtually forgotten, fenced-in ponds. As such, some have a greater recreational use than others. Basically, water bodies always act as a magnet for walkers and people seeking recreation. Moreover, for many city dwellers, small urban water bodies are their first or even only encounter with nature. Inner-city small water bodies may not necessarily be hotspots of biodiversity, but they are very important places where residents can experience nature. And they have a positive effect on the urban climate—in combination with riparian vegetation, which may or may not be lush, they produce evaporative cooling, which reduces the local temperature. Water retention in the landscape is another key function of small water bodies that could be improved in Berlin. In many places, rainwater is discharged via the sewage system, and is then no longer available for freshwater systems. This is why many small water bodies in Berlin dried up completely or almost completely in the dry years from 2018 to 2020. Urban planning must therefore increasingly promote the removal of sealed surfaces in the catchment area, not only of small water bodies, as well as allowing roof drainage etc. to seep into the ground locally. We should also mention that some people will use the word “brooklet” to refer to very small brooks or bournes. 9. Burn A freshet (#23) is a sudden flow of freshwater from rapid heavy rain or melting snow after a spring thaw. (It can also mean the place where a river or stream empties into the ocean, combining freshwater into salt water.) In that realm, an estuary (#24) is where a river empties into the sea—the place where the mouth of the river meets out the ocean tide. And the headwaters (#25) is the source, the very beginning of a river or stream.

The notoriety they attract tends to be as fleeting as the puddles themselves. Who, for example, remembers the legendary Drummond puddle, which captivated the country for a sizeable fraction of 6 January 2016? an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and truly aquatic systems making them different from each yet highly dependent on both". [40] Oxbow Lake: a lake with a U-shape that forms from a river after the water follows a new path from its original meander; called a billabong in Australia.a href="https://outforia.com/types-of-bodies-of-water/">
Bodies of water Infographic by Outforia Tributary: a body of water, usually freshwater, that feeds into a larger body of water without flowing into the ocean.

One of the more unique bodies of water on our list, subglacial lakes are lakes that form under ice sheets or glaciers. Although it might seem impossible for liquid water to exist under a massive sheet of ice, there are a few hundred subglacial lakes in Antarctica alone. Bayou: a swampy portion of a river or lake with water that moves slowly; a common term for creeks and lakes in the southern United States.

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The Great Lakes in the United States and Canada are among the largest lakes by total surface area, though Russia’s Lake Baikal gives them a run for their money in terms of depth and total volume. Other lakes like Lake Victoria in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania, as well as the Great Bear Lake in Canada, are also truly massive. 25. Loch Biggs is also the author of the book Ponds, Pools and Puddles, so he is the man to answer this question. There are no hard and fast differences, he says, but because people keep asking, the trust has created some guidelines based on size. “In the UK, we call everything up to 2 hectares [about 5 acres] a pond, but a lake that’s 2.1 hectares is really no different from a pond that’s 1.9 hectares,” he says. “Down the bottom end, we call things down to 1 sq metre a pond, so then it’s below that we have puddles.” There is also a distinction to be made between puddles and temporary ponds. To qualify for the second category, the pond must be wet for at least four months of the year (although I think we have all known puddles of that duration). When does a puddle become a problem? Ms. Bizic, you have also conducted research into small water bodies in a northeast German agricultural landscape recently, using environmental RNA to investigate how the type of land use affects biotic communities in the water. What did you discover? Rivers are bodies of water that flow downhill from a source to an outlet by the force of gravity. Even though there is no technical distinction between a river, stream, and creek, most people think of rivers as the largest of the three.

As Powles notes, the Nan Shepherd Prize was launched to broaden definitions of what nature writing can be. Best known as a poet, Powles’ essays swim between travel writing, memoi A sound (#45) is an ocean inlet even larger than a bay and wider than a fjord—specifically a part of the ocean between two bodies of land, like a wide inlet parallel to the coastline flanked by a nearby island. A channel (#46) is also constrained on two sides by banks, but is specifically a bed of water that joins two larger bodies of water. A strait (#47) is similar to a channel only narrower. rill". oxforddictionaries.com. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on May 17, 2019 . Retrieved 16 May 2019. By far the most famous subglacial lake is Lake Vostok, which is believed to be about 13,100 feet (4,000 m) below the surface of the Antarctic ice sheet. There are also subglacial lakes under the Greenland ice sheet and the Vatanajökull ice cap in Iceland. 41. SwampMany people use the word strait to refer to larger channels, like the Denmark Strait between Iceland and Greenland. But there are also smaller straits like the Strait of Gibraltar, which is just 8.1 miles (13 km) wide at its narrowest point.

creek". oxforddictionaries.com. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016 . Retrieved 18 May 2019. British...especially an inlet...(whereas) NZ, North American, Australian...stream or minor tributary. As a result, rivers deposit these sediments at their mouth, creating a system of braided channels. These braided channels eventually form a sandy landform that can support wetland habitats. The word “ firth” is used almost exclusively in Scotland where it refers to the outlet of a large river.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. gill". oxforddictionaries.com. Oxford University Press. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016 . Retrieved 16 May 2019. A pond is traditionally a small body of still freshwater. While there is no technical definition of a pond, most people would agree that a pond is smaller than a lake; however, you will find some relatively large bodies of water that are called ponds in certain parts of the world.