What Do Body Of Water Names Mean?
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Water Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/water
How Much Water Is There?: science.howstuffworks.com/env...
Body Of Water: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of...
Oceans: www.nationalgeographic.com/en...
Ocean Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/ocean...
Sea: www.geographyrealm.com/what-i...
Sea Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/sea#e...
Channel: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Channel: www.etymonline.com/word/chann...
Strait: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Strait Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/strai...
Gulf: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Gulf Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/gulf#...
Bay: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Bay Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/bay#e...
Cove: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Cove Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/cove#...
Sound: www.worldatlas.com/articles/w...
Sound Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/sound...
River: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
River Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/river...
Stream: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Stream Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/strea...
Tributary: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Tributary Etymology: www.merriam-webster.com/dicti...
Estuary: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Estuary Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/estua...
Delta: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Delta Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/delta...
Brook: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Brook Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/brook...
Lake: www.etymonline.com/search?q=lake
Lake Etymology: www.etymonline.com/search?q=lake
Oxbow Lake: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
Oxbow Lake Etymology: www.etymonline.com/search?q=o...
Pond: ypte.org.uk/factsheets/ponds/...
Pond Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/pond#...
Canal: www.britannica.com/technology...
Canal Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/canal...
Moat: wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-d...
Moat Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/moat#...
Puddle: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Puddle Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/puddl...
Phytotelma: torontobotanicalgarden.ca/blo...
Phytotelma Etymology: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phytot...
@stevencook388 4 жыл бұрын
“The word water came from the word “wod-or” meaning water” loled at that
@Nugcon 3 жыл бұрын
The floor is indeed made out of floor
@jackrotz2139 2 жыл бұрын
If he was from the states, he would've added that it also originated in philadelphia
@binaryglitch64 2 жыл бұрын
↑ For people who didn't get @Jack Rotz's joke ↑ . . . [SPOILER WARNING: Explaining jokes ruins them.] . . _Some people from Philly pronounce water_ 'wod-or' ...
@beargreen1 Жыл бұрын
It seems they got it right from the beginning
@23snowy23 4 жыл бұрын
My favourite body of water is a Tarn. Generally means body of fresh water elevated on mountain, a great place to wild camp beside.
@ShrektheHulk 4 жыл бұрын
does that also include water that collects in crevices and dips in stone? like phytotelma but for rocks, or would that be called petrotelma
@jeffreyfox5833 4 жыл бұрын
you, a fool: gulf me, an intellectual: reverse peninsula
@CRG2100 4 жыл бұрын
You the fool: reverse peninsula Me, the intellectual: Sea tiddy
@jeffreyfox5833 4 жыл бұрын
Craig Anuszkiewiez i concede defeat 😂
@bear8284 2 жыл бұрын
you, a fool: reverse peninsula me, an intellectual: peninsulan’t
@cyrilfiggis7978 2 жыл бұрын
I search for humour and always find it in YT comments
@NameExplain 4 жыл бұрын
Click read more for the answers to the quiz at the end of the video! A = GULF (Gulf of Venice) B = TRIBUTARY (Tributaries of the Thames) C = STRAIT (Palk Strait) Who got them all right?
@jamieeisinger1833 4 жыл бұрын
b
@kurdan9848 4 жыл бұрын
I got A wrong :(((
@dk.kapsukas2195 4 жыл бұрын
A looked more like a bay or cove
@petargrific484 4 жыл бұрын
me
@doobleberry 4 жыл бұрын
got b wrong
@SickLid242 4 жыл бұрын
As I had learned in my aquatic ecology class many years ago, the limnologist (lake scientist) definition/difference between a pond and a lake is that a lake is too deep for rooted aquatic plants to grow, except in the shallows, whereas a pond could have rooted plants across it's width. Of course it's a little arbitrary due to local conditions
@prashantsharma4427 4 жыл бұрын
Iet me guess A: Gulf B: Tributary C:Strait Forgive me Patrick if I am wrong
@lemon-vy3mj 3 жыл бұрын
Correct
@rlevitta 4 жыл бұрын
Here in New York (also Pennsylvania and Delaware), there's also a "Kill" - which is a dutch word left over from when the Dutch settled here. It means "channel or creek." Examples are Arthur Kill and Bronx Kill. It's also used in place names near bodies of water like Fishkill, and Catskill. By the way, the idiots at PETA tried to get the town of Fishkill to change the name of the town so it didn't celebrate killing fish. I guess they didn't do their research. Anyway, in the USA, particularly in the south, there's the term "Run" - like Bull Run - which seems to be synonymous with "Stream" or "River." It probably just comes from "running water." You also didn't talk about swamps - I guess you guys call them "bogs?" Also, a swamp near a larger body of water could be a "wetland."
@crazymusicchick 4 жыл бұрын
Bob Levittan lol stupid peta
@arikwolf3777 4 жыл бұрын
So it's Cats Kill but pronounce Cat Skill. Yeap, Peta is stupid. Killing cats is way worst than killing fish.
@sundalongpatpat 3 жыл бұрын
Swamps are actually both a body of water and land.
@Mukmeen 3 жыл бұрын
Philadelphia we have a schuylkill river
@mbww8572 2 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget the Murderkill Hundred
@metalfarmer8151 4 жыл бұрын
Oxbow lakes are formed when a river's meander gets too wibbly, wibbly, wobbly to maintain the course it's on The main flow of the stream diverts itself accordingly Leaving the oxbow lake behind
@Virtrial 4 жыл бұрын
But here's my question son What the hell's an oxbow ? Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry ? Someone to tell me, do I need to buy a shield ?
@recklessroges 4 жыл бұрын
@@Virtrial Maybe watch this video?
@mrslinkydragon9910 4 жыл бұрын
@@recklessroges you dont get it do you?
@Virtrial 4 жыл бұрын
@@recklessroges bruh it's a song from like 9 years ago ya goof
@ProjectEchoshadow 4 жыл бұрын
Now I want pie
@shruggzdastr8-facedclown 4 жыл бұрын
Similar to "creek" is the word "crick" where, depending upon geographical colloquial usage in different parts of the U.S., can be interchangeable with one another, but in other places one would use crick when referring to a small creek. Another word used in parts of the U.S. to describe small streams is "run"
@karlfoarile8056 4 жыл бұрын
I think runs are usually used for streams that are seasonal or intermittent in nature. That is when it's dry or during the dry season, the watercourse is dry and empty and water only flows in it after a rainfall.
@MrFmiller 4 жыл бұрын
I thought it was a pain in the back. I guess that’s ‘cause I’m a Nutherner.
@camdensnyder8894 4 жыл бұрын
My parents are from Nebraska, and everyone in Nebraska says crick, instead of creek. I kinda go back and forth, depending on who I'm talking to. The weird thing is that Denver is very close to the panhandle of Nebraska, but in Denver, nobody says crick (seriously. People even get confused sometimes when I accidentally say crick instead of creek), whereas it is impossible to find anyone that doesn't say crick in Nebraska. It's great.
@GregInHouston2 4 жыл бұрын
@@karlfoarile8056 I've seen the name "wash" used for a stream that is intermittent.
@Nero-ho6gt 4 жыл бұрын
Go on down to de crick and pull a tar out of de wooder, then pour some ool on de tar an light de tar on far.
@Myrtle2911 4 жыл бұрын
Another vote for the Puget Sound. I've lived minutes from it my whole life. Not all rivers flow into a sea or ocean. The Okavango River in Botswana does not flow into any sea or ocean. Instead, all the water flows into a depression and forms the Okavango Delta inland. All the water reaching the delta is ultimately evaporated and transpired and does not flow into any sea or ocean. The Jordan River flows into the "Dead Sea" which is actually a really big, really salty lake. There is no outlet to the ocean.
@babyinuyasha 4 жыл бұрын
It got its name from a British explorer named Peter Puget
@Leathurkatt 4 жыл бұрын
I was born and raised in Tacoma. I know Puget Sound and the Narrows well. :)
@davidlikesramen5661 3 жыл бұрын
Okavango river be sad
@AlphaFX-kv4ud 3 жыл бұрын
He made me question my entire existence when he said lakes have to be fresh water while I'm only and hour drive away from Salt Lake city aka the capital of Utah
@shibolinemress8913 Жыл бұрын
Dead Sea: Water checks in, it doesn't check out. 😄
@explorernate 4 жыл бұрын
"and Birmingham" lmao ded
@WaterShowsProd 4 жыл бұрын
I laughed out loud too. Sorry, Birmingham.
@davegreenlaw5654 4 жыл бұрын
It was the way he said it that killed me.
@Ggdivhjkjl 4 жыл бұрын
He pronounced the word as the place in the UK is said.
@jamesuthmann940 4 жыл бұрын
@@Ggdivhjkjl I don't think Dave Greenlaw meant pronunciation, but tone; as if "Of course when thinking of 'Romantic Cities with canals' Birmingham is right up there with Venice and Amsterdam, it's just obvious!"
@user-rh1jo1yy9e 4 жыл бұрын
Why do the English hate Birmingham and Liverpool so much lol
@delta4900 4 жыл бұрын
The Puget Sound fulfils both definitions.
@DrZalmat 4 жыл бұрын
Oxbow lakes are called "Altwasser" in German, which means literally translated old water, since they are old leftover parts of rivers
@taitano12 4 жыл бұрын
Like with most things involving sailing and the ocean, a lot of things have different names depending on circumstances. For instance: A rope becomes a line when in general use, a sheet when controlling a sail, a painter when towing, etc; a bunk is a rack if it's used by multiple sailors. Likewise, a bay can become a harbor if used as such and, usually anyway, is inhabited landside.
@elijahkinnane2730 4 жыл бұрын
I deadset was meaning to look this up, what perfect timing
@HotStepper89 4 жыл бұрын
I assume you meant the "dead sea" instead of the "black sea", since black sea is connected to the mediterranean sea @ 09:56
@TheSpiritombsableye 4 жыл бұрын
Patrick really should start checking his work before posting.
@TheSpiritombsableye 4 жыл бұрын
But he did mean Black Sea, as you look at his earlier picture of the Mediterranean Sea.
@seans6999 4 жыл бұрын
My brain exploded when he said that
@bradlemmond 4 жыл бұрын
Or the Aral Sea, which is close to the Caspian. At least, what is left of the Aral Sea.
@yarone5960 4 жыл бұрын
The dead sea is a salt lake - its water does not flow any where but evaporates This leads to the the true error in the video - tht all rivers connect back to the ocean
@BeastOfTraal 4 жыл бұрын
A few not mentioned Lagoon, Bayou, Branch, Distributary
@piperar2014 4 жыл бұрын
A bayou is a slow moving coastal river. They originate and terminate on the coastal plane and are often swampy. Buffalo Bayou in Houston Texas is an example. A distributary is the opposite of a tributary, a smaller river leaving the larger. An example is the Atchafalaya River which breaks away from the Mississippi and drains to the gulf of Mexico in a separate channel.
@piperar2014 4 жыл бұрын
The Red River wasn't always part of the Mississippi system. Previously it had its own drainage to the Gulf of Mexico. The Red drifted east and the Mississippi drifted west until they met. The Atchafalaya is more or less the Red Rivers old path to the sea. Left on its own, the Mississippi would change course to the Atchafalaya basin. This would be really bad for Baton Rouge and New Orleans, so the Army Corps of Engineers maintains dams and levees to prevent this. But there are also drainage canals from the Mississippi to the Atchafalaya so that during flooding water from the Mississippi can be diverted.
@THSTigervision 4 жыл бұрын
@@piperar2014 those drainage canals are called spillways. I live along Bayou Lafourche, a tributary of the Mississippi.
@lesnyk255 4 жыл бұрын
marsh, swamp, bog freshet, rill, meander, runoff, cataract, inlet, cove, harbor... this could easily have been a 60 minute documentary
@guilhermerafaelzimermann4196 4 жыл бұрын
@@piperar2014 are you telling me that there is actually a name for those things evey DnD map maker complains about people doing? Are you saying then that it is a real (althought not common) thing for a river to split somewhere that Isn't it's delta?
@EMNstar 2 жыл бұрын
Growing up in Georgia, USA, creeks (or sometimes I heard pronounced as "cricks") were smaller and shallower than streams, with slower moving water.
@loosegoose4703 4 жыл бұрын
billabong is one of my favourite words. its fun to say
@sohopedeco 4 жыл бұрын
I just learned now it wasn't just the name of a clothing brand. 😅
@marshallferron 4 жыл бұрын
Australian aboriginal languages have given us so many fun to say words. Didgeridoo, wallaby, bunyip, kookaburra, wombat, numbat, woomera...
@nssherlock4547 4 жыл бұрын
@@marshallferronlots not forget , gotabungerdare cuz.
@digitalnomad9985 4 жыл бұрын
As a Yank, I'm a word closer to understanding "Waltzing Matilda".
@crazymusicchick 4 жыл бұрын
It’s also an ice cream name lol
@nitehawk86 4 жыл бұрын
In Western Pennsylvania creek is pronounced "crick". Such as "Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick"
@kipdude1 4 жыл бұрын
This is the earliest I have been to a Name Explain video or any video for that matter...
@nitehawk86 4 жыл бұрын
Not all rivers empty into the ocean. Any that run to an endorheic basin terminate in whatever body of water is at the bottom, such as the Volga River to the Caspian Sea.
@phylliss3995 4 жыл бұрын
And the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea
@marshallferron 4 жыл бұрын
They don't all flow into other bodies of water either.
@recklessroges 4 жыл бұрын
Depends on the language. In French there is a separate word for rivers that flow into the sea/ocean and rivers that don't.
@TimothyGaetke 4 жыл бұрын
Yes! This applies to the 209,162-square-mile (541,730 sq km) Great Basin of the USA, which is actually a bunch of smaller basins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin#Hydrology
@pulsarstudios3646 4 жыл бұрын
well technically he did say that they empty into oceans OR SEAS. but don't judje me as i could be mistaken. i like rivers
@zhubajie6940 3 жыл бұрын
For the freshwater bodies, I was told that a puddle and a stream/brook you can jump over, a creek/run, and a pond you can throw a rock over and rivers and lakes are even bigger. So when a puddle gets too big to jump over it is a pond no matter how shallow or temporary.
@tomlynch8114 4 жыл бұрын
There are a couple of terms used in parts of the UK instead of stream. In much of the North East of England as well as in Scotland, streams get called Burns. Newcastle has the Ouseburn, Pandon Burn, Lort Burn and Skinnerburn, all of which are tributaries of the River Tyne. A bit further south, down in Yorkshire, the term Beck is used instead of stream.
@octoberboiy 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this channel. It’s very fascinating!
@BlandTomtarOchTroll 4 жыл бұрын
Informative and interesting. Thank you for teaching me something today!
@HalfEye79 4 жыл бұрын
Here are the german names of the bodies of water: Der Ozean: Just the ocean. Das Meer: The sea. Der Golf: a Gulf Die Bucht: A bay. Der Busen: A bight. (Only example, I know, is the Jadebusen / Jade Bight). Der Fluss: A river. Der Strom: A Stream: Der Bach: A creek. Der See: A lake. Der Teich: A pond. Sometimes, the names can be used a bit different. So most sailors say call large bodies of water "die See". And the oceans are called "Weltmeere". Sometimes, the Atlantic Ocean is called "der große Teich" (the big pond).
@MrGollum1996 4 жыл бұрын
Half Eye der see: the lake Die see: the sea/ocean
@fermintenava5911 4 жыл бұрын
You also forgot that we use the word "Sund" and "Belte" from nordic languages, as well as the word "Meeresstraße" and "Meerenge". All of them can be synonymous for "strait", which is why we call it "die Straße von Gibraltar". Further: Die Pfütze: A puddle. Das Wasserloch: An oasis. Der Wasserlauf: A run of water.
@jamescook2412 4 жыл бұрын
So why is the Baltic sea called "Ostsee" in German? Shouldn't it be "Ostmeer"?
@HalfEye79 4 жыл бұрын
@@jamescook2412 I don`t really know. But I think it is because of "die See" (its "die Ostsee"). In this context that would make sense. The same would be true with "die Nordsee". "Das Nordmeer" is, if I`m correct, the ocean, sea or whatever, with the Arctic in it.
@tygrkhat4087 4 жыл бұрын
Wohin geht Peter? Peter geht an den See. This was the first thing I learned in my high school German class in 1975.
@amiscellaneoushuman3516 4 жыл бұрын
Technically, most moats weren't filled with water historically so counting "moat" as the name of a body of water is cheating slightly.
@AlvinBalvin321 4 жыл бұрын
I fill them with lava In minecraft
@SilverMe2004 4 жыл бұрын
And while there is no evidence of there ever being a crocodile filled moat there was one that had bears in it.
@Markle2k 2 жыл бұрын
@@SilverMe2004 But wasn't that sort of a private zoo.
@thezpn 4 жыл бұрын
Spring, an upwell of ground water Well, a man-made pit to access ground water Tide Pool - ponds that connect to a larger body of water at high tide, but are separate at low tide
@littlelolex11 4 жыл бұрын
There's also a run which is just like a river/creek/brooke/etc. But it's source is via a spring.
@damonwilliams5845 4 жыл бұрын
Streams are defined as flowing water narrow enough to be stepped across by an average sized man. Any body of moving water is a creek, tributary, river, etc.
@shibolinemress8913 3 жыл бұрын
"Phytotelma" is my new favourite water body name! 😊 Reminds me of the office watercoolers that draw gossipers like flies! 🤣
@amiejg1654 3 жыл бұрын
What a fabulous video. Most helpful when helping my son with his homework about different bodies of water.
@alexspareone3872 3 жыл бұрын
The term "creek" furnishes me with a good anecdote of how ignorant people exhibit thought processes that are fouled up. My mother and an aunt were driving somewhere when they mentioned a creek. I was about 12. I asked, "whats a creek". Answer from my mother "its a creek". I tried again "whats a creek". Same answer but louder "ITS A CREEK". "But what IS a creek". Then she was getting angry, "Its a creek , you KNOW what a creek is, stop being stupid". Who was being stupid. That always stuck in my memory as an example of an all too common mental set blocking sensible communication.
@TheAvatar. 3 жыл бұрын
Very informative video. Thank you !
@KyleTales 4 жыл бұрын
I was so surprised to see Carter Lake, in my home town of Omaha, in your video! I had no idea it was called a Oxbow Lake. This is also a great example of why using geographical formations, like rivers, to set boarders isn't always a good idea. Carter Lake was once part of the Missouri River, which separates Iowa from Nebraska. In 1877 the river flooded and changed course, creating this Oxbow Lake. Now the land south of the lake (known as the City of Carter Lake), is the only City in Iowa that is west of the Missouri River, and is almost completely surrounded by the City of Omaha Nebraska.
@GeographyWorld 4 жыл бұрын
The Sargasso Sea isn't surrounded by land.
@lindenmcdiarmid2009 4 жыл бұрын
Geography World yeah thats kind of odd
@512TheWolf512 4 жыл бұрын
neither are any of the seas on the Moon
@GeographyWorld 4 жыл бұрын
@@512TheWolf512 Good point.
@LucarioBoricua 4 жыл бұрын
Some seas (and even oceans) are distinguished by clearly differing water conditions. The Sargasso Sea is a gyre of the Atlantic Ocean, as it's entirely surrounded by marine currents. These relatively calm waters host the namesake algae, the sargasso. Meanwhile, the distinction between the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean has to do with sea current temperatures, same as the distinction of the Antarctic Ocean versus the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic. The Antarctic Ocean is essentially a vortex of cold currents keeping Antarctica cold and isolated from the other big oceans.
@skelet8337 3 жыл бұрын
Some seas aren't seas Caspian sea is a lake but called sea bcs of it's size
@jonesoghuvwu8614 4 жыл бұрын
I really needed this information
@wachyfanning 4 жыл бұрын
Honestly I'd love to see a video explaining how we came to name the different time periods and eras (like cretaceous, or paleozoic)
@snazzyquizzes2336 4 жыл бұрын
Useful water-related info. I didn't already know about deltas and estuaries.
@SledgerFromTDS. 4 жыл бұрын
Omg thanks Patrick for making this video about every single type of bodies of water
@WaterShowsProd 4 жыл бұрын
Fjords are cliffs which were carved by glaciers and lead down to bodies of water. The southernmost fjords in The Northern Hemisphere are The Palisades on The Hudson River to The North and West of New York City.
@RocketMagnetUK 4 жыл бұрын
Some more additions: 1. Tarn (Small mountain lake in a glacial Corrie.. See Watendlath Tarn). 2. Beck (Small river like a Brook) 3. Mere (Basically a Lake .. e.g. Thirlmere)
@SledgerFromTDS. 4 жыл бұрын
Cove =. A much smaller level of tiny O's Sound =. A stray/A swimming Rivers =. A Water way through a landmass Stream =. A Small/ Narrow/ Shallow river Tributary =. A tiny stream that flows in A big stream
@14067913 4 жыл бұрын
My old Geography teacher explained the difference between a Bay and a Gulf. You take a bite out of a piece of bread, the missing bread is in the shape of a bay. Your dog takes a bite, it's in the shape of a gulf.
@ObaJu 2 жыл бұрын
That’s not a great explanation
@SilentCreepa22 9 ай бұрын
That explanation sucks
@t71024 4 жыл бұрын
@7:40 Not all rivers flow back into the sea. Some flow into dry basins. For example, the Truckee River flows from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, which is a salt lake. By the way, have you heard that Truckee wanted to be named after the local native chief but it found an error. Actually, the nearby Winnemucca was more properly named after the chief. It turns out "truckee" means "hello".
@TomKellyXY 4 жыл бұрын
New Zealand also uses “burn” and “awa” for streams due to Scottish and Polynesian influences.
@dyrcosis 4 жыл бұрын
Phytotelma is my new favorite word! Of course there's a name for the relatively small amount of water a plant can collect. I just never thought to look it up!
@bmeares 4 жыл бұрын
Don't forget about the English word "mere," which is related to the German word "das Meer," meaning sea. My last name Meares means "one who lives by the mere" (think of the name Brooks).
@nitehawk86 4 жыл бұрын
The English Gutter. Sounds like something the French would call it.
@TrulySpeechless 4 жыл бұрын
Fun Fact: in French, it is called the Sleeve (la Manche).
@muderschaferhund 3 жыл бұрын
I actually live near Carter Lake! It's so weird, when you're driving to the Omaha airport you pass state lines into Iowa and back into Nebraska in the span of minutes because of the Oxbow Lake.
@linksfood 4 жыл бұрын
For delta, I almost think the lower case greek letter works better. It’s a thin, squigly bit that leads ro a large, round bit like a small stream leading to an ocean. δ
@MateoQuixote 4 жыл бұрын
A great example of a sound is the Puget Sound in the Seattle area
@christophersobieszczyk9234 4 жыл бұрын
Live this channel
@beargreen1 Жыл бұрын
It's so interesting how many terms for a body of water there is.
@chanceDdog2009 4 жыл бұрын
You are one cheeky bloke.. Greetings from Puerto Rico...
@mori6318 4 жыл бұрын
Water
@timelordrohan9425 4 жыл бұрын
Yes
@luizfellipe3291 4 жыл бұрын
⛲💧💦♒
@petersattler4577 4 жыл бұрын
This will help me be more accurate with my world building. Thanks
@caribaez5711 3 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@AverytheCubanAmerican 4 жыл бұрын
I like the Caribbean Sea, it's where you'll find a pirate wondering why's the rum gone
@Spitzel42 4 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much! Also, I remember your video about borders in oceans, but do oceans and seas have their own borders?
@roberthayden5865 4 жыл бұрын
This is useful and needed in society
@luizfellipe3291 4 жыл бұрын
Please make a video about origins of name of fire-related things
@sohopedeco 4 жыл бұрын
Weird how, unlike Portuguese, there seam to be few fire-related words in English. "Fogo", "fogueira" and "incêndio" are all translated as "fire".
@luizfellipe3291 4 жыл бұрын
@@sohopedeco Ignição(ignition)
@WUStLBear82 4 жыл бұрын
A possibly unique usage of "canal" applied to a natural body of water is Hood Canal, which separates the Olympic Peninsula from the Kitsap Peninsula in northwest Washington state in the USA. It's technically a fjord, and was apparently named "Hood's Channel" in honor of Admiral Lord Hood by Captain Vancouver during his explorations. However, he spelt it "Canal" on his nautical charts, and that is the official name later approved by the US Department of the Interior's Board of Geographic Names.
@ptaylor25 4 жыл бұрын
The primary difference between a pond and a lake is that with a pond sunlight penetrates to the bottom over the entirety of the body. Whereas with a lake, there are parts of the bottom sunlight will never hit. The lake near my home is actually quite shallow being only 22 feet at it's deepest point, but since the runoff from the local watershed is tinted by the surrounding vegetation (think of it as a very weak tea) light tends to peter out after only 10-15 feet (depending on the time of year)
@Dingomush 4 жыл бұрын
Just a bit here. A Pond is shallow enough for the sunlight to penetrate to the bottom, a Lake is deeper. A Stream or Creek is a seasonal flowing body of water, if they don’t stop flowing in the middle of the summer then they are a River.
@kohakuaiko 4 жыл бұрын
By that definition Turnback Creek and Spring River are backwards.
@GabZonY 4 жыл бұрын
that illustration of how an oxbow lake forms is kind of misleading! they're usually formed as the curves of a river grow wider as a result of the water removing sediment from the banks and depositing it further up the curve, eventually leading to the curve growing large enough to intersect itself and thus giving the river a new, more straight forward path. the previous path the river took gets cut off as the water flows down the path of least resistance, leaving behind an oxbow lake. minute earth has a great video explaining how it works that i recommend checking out!
@patrickdaly1161 2 жыл бұрын
Apart from size, a lake generally has water flowing in and out of it. While a pond is totally enclosed. The exception is an oxbow lake which is also enclosed but still has water seeping through soil upriver.
@lotgc 3 жыл бұрын
I think it's a matter of perspective. I was born and raised in Utah, and ask the rivers I had seen were no more than like, 20 feet wide and 5 feet deep. Then I moved to Alaska and ran into several 'streams' that were *atleast* five times as big as those dimensions, and the 'rivers' were basically indistinguishable from the ocean or a Lake
@sms17762000 4 жыл бұрын
In my part of the US the difference between a creek and a stream is the creak is more prone to dry up. If it has water all year round it is a stream. Streams are tributaries, they will not flow directly to a river.
@alexanderishere6205 4 жыл бұрын
Good job
@user-vn7ce5ig1z 4 жыл бұрын
• 4:38 - A strait is a short cut between land masses; a channel is long, more like a river. • 11:20 - Ah, yes, the canals of Birmingham are so romantic, they'll make anybody wet. • 11:30 - Filling your moat with water is for noobs; a pro fills it with lava, because you can't make a infinite lava sources. • I could have sworn you mentioned a fjord. 🤔
@emilchandran546 4 жыл бұрын
The Bass Strait is not so small or narrow.
@dangermus74 4 жыл бұрын
Emil Chandran neither is Torres Strait
@erossummer9344 4 жыл бұрын
- so is the Strait of Malacca
@jakemauger8377 4 жыл бұрын
A sound is a body of salty or brackish water connected to the ocean that is protected by a barrier island. A good example is the Long Island Sound or Barnegat Sound.
@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks 4 жыл бұрын
a sound is a calm body of water typically but not necessary enclosed by land on most sides, the resulting body of water is generally calmer then the rest of the body or water. an example of a sound that isn't enclosed by water is a river sound, which typically are bodies of water that exists opposite to the flow of water resulting in a stagnant stable body of water connected and fed by a river or lake.
@peterdavy6110 4 жыл бұрын
In the UK, a "creek" is traditionally a stream that has a tide. Barking Creek off the River Thames in East London for instance.
@HummingPhoenix 4 жыл бұрын
in dutch, an oxbow lake is called "hoefijzermeer", which means horseshoe lake, because of the shape
@panchora99 2 жыл бұрын
i like this channel's videos
@danieladownie6087 3 жыл бұрын
love it!
@NRBD2 11 ай бұрын
Where I grew up in eastern Canada, on a very big river, you could sail along a reach until you came to an arm.
@Sb129 4 жыл бұрын
Living south central AZ we mostly have washes and runs which would be a creek some of the time but usually is dry
@TimothyGaetke 4 жыл бұрын
We also have rivers without water (the Santa Cruz River in Tucson). I think that's breaking some rules about what a river is...
@wayner396 4 жыл бұрын
Every creek I've know is a small stream in the middle of a forested area often in mountains. So that might might have something to it.
@oasisline6415 4 жыл бұрын
Pugent sound is like the first thing I thought of when you said sound it may just be because I love in the U.S. but pretty sure a lot of people think of it because of Seattle
@Theeduckie 4 жыл бұрын
There’s also vernal pools. They are seasonal ponds (or smaller), bigger than puddles and less temporary.
@amehak1922 4 жыл бұрын
Huge nerd here, I knew most of this stuff already. Geography geek.
@agrajag4224 4 жыл бұрын
I have also heard of the word "tarn" meaning a mountain lake.
@SWLinPHX 4 жыл бұрын
Pretty thorough job Patrick! ...can any of you think of bodies of water he missed? Like a fall, an inlet, a lagoon, a cape, a swamp, a marsh or a bayou?
@SWLinPHX 4 жыл бұрын
Some of these bodies of waters are subcategories or types of other bodies of water. I think a stream through a forest or wooded area is a creek. And a very narrow and shallow small creek is a brook. I think a very small private cove that may feature a lot of lush foliage and even a waterfall would be a lagoon.
@SledgerFromTDS. 4 жыл бұрын
Ocean =. A water body around land Sea =. A water body enclosed by land Channel =. Connect to 2 water body Strait =. Narrow pass or way Gulf =. Almost a Sea Bay =. Has a wider opening than a Sea Puddle =. Water that came from rain
@Xaiff 4 жыл бұрын
In time, Wod-Or became Hod-Or
@TheObsesedAnimeFreaks 4 жыл бұрын
the Jordan river flows to the dead sea... not all rivers flow to oceans, they flow to the lowest elevation they can, given a dry enough climate and a large enough area, a river can flow into a lake or "sea" at the same rate or slower then the time it takes for the river to evaporate in that low plain.
@LordS20000 4 жыл бұрын
The springs are upset with you for leaving them out 🤣
@sohopedeco 4 жыл бұрын
I had always wondered why it was called the English _channel_ but the Panama _canal._ In Portuguese, we call them both "canal".
@Markle2k 2 жыл бұрын
San Francisco Bay is a ria. It's a river valley, a few rivers actually, that flooded when the glacial period came to a close and sea level rose. The Farallon Islands 20 miles offshore were actually hills on the old shoreline. The water only gets to about 60-80 feet deep until you get to the islands.
@jpsned 2 жыл бұрын
6:58 A good example of a sound is Long Island Sound, located to the north of New York's Long Island. 🙂
@Sixbears 4 жыл бұрын
I live on a "pond" that's 80 acres and 60 feet deep. Nearby are "lakes" that are just an acre or two. Mine is not even the largest "pond" in my area. -Northern New England.
@damonwilliams5845 4 жыл бұрын
My research defines lakes from ponds due to depth and clarity. Ponds allow enough daylight to its bottom to support vegetation, lakes do not support plant life at its deepest part of the bed.
@Sixbears 4 жыл бұрын
@@damonwilliams5845 I guess my 60 foot deep "pond" is misnamed. That's pretty much what I suspected.
@clabood 3 жыл бұрын
In Australia we have Lagoons. I believe this is another word for estuary. As they are also can be described as marshland as well.
@512TheWolf512 4 жыл бұрын
As far as i understand, a sound is a very narrow strait. Take Pudget Sound as an example
@j.s.7335 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this! Some of these are very fascinating, especially pond, tributary, and estuary. To my understanding a sound is like a bay or a gulf except that it has multiple, disparate, openings to the larger body of water. I think the archetypal sound is Long Island Sound. Puget Sound, on the other hand, strikes me as being more of a bay. Further, I think a bay has a smaller, not larger, opening to the larger body of water than a gulf does. Good examples are the Chesapeake Bay (my personal favorite), Delaware Bay, and San Francisco Bay (can you tell I'm American by now?). The opening of San Francisco Bay is even a strait (the Golden Gate).
@frankhooper7871 Жыл бұрын
I find it interesting that in America, the word "river" tends to follow the name: Mississippi River, Missouri River, Los Angeles River (often just a trickle of water in the centre of concrete 🤓) whilst in England, it's usually the other way around: River Thames, River Tyne, River Orwell (my local one).
@gloweye 4 жыл бұрын
In the Netherlands, we have so much water, that we have more fine-grained words for small bodies of water that have no translation. For example, a sloot is an example of a water-filled ditch, often thin enough to jump over. In dry area's, they're used to ensure sufficient water as a part of irrigation, and in wet area's they're used to funnel it away.
@Markle2k 2 жыл бұрын
Sund in Danish also can mean fit or healthy, and you can sunde (m/d/s)ig, or rest (my/your/them)self. But the geographical term is related to svømme, or swim, and so refers to a water passage that lays between an island and the mainland or another island that can be swam over.
@SeiberCam 4 жыл бұрын
I don't have a patreon but I would really like it if you would do a video all about peninsulas