Water Bodies
Alluvial Fan – an accumulation of sediments shaped like a section of a shallow cone.
Sentence – Geologically, this area is an alluvial fan of a giant rock slide of granitic gneisses.
Arm Of The Sea – where the sea or tide flows or reflows.
Sentence – A city of southern European U. S. S. R. on the Don River near its outlet on an arm of the Sea of Azov.
Arroyo – a narrow channel in the ground that is usually dry but becomes a stream after heavy rain.
Sentence – Arroyo has had to make compromises with Muslim family leaders throughout the region while soldiers pursued elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, deeply ensconced in the province.
Basin – the area of land from which streams run into a river, lake, or sea.
Sentence – The Amazon river basin contains the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
Bay – a part of the coast where the land curves in so that the sea is surrounded by land on three sides.
Sentence – The animals are herded into a bay, then butchered.
Bayou – an area of slowly moving water at the side of the main river.
Sentence – The wild goose is more of a cosmopolite than we; he breaks his fast in Canada, takes a luncheon in the Ohio, and plumes himself for the night in a southern bayou.
Bight – a curved part of a coast or river that is set back from the rest
Sentence – But the burning of the sloop in the Bight was to be the only successful venture of the day on their side.
Billabong – a low area of ground that was part of a river in the past and that only fills up with water from the river during a flood.
Sentence – Once a jolly swagman camped by a billabong.
Bog– an area of soft, wet earth
Sentence – Then some one described a bog, another a volcano about to erupt.
Brook – A small stream.
Sentence – I could hear the sound of a babbling brook
Canal – a long, thin stretch of water that is artificially made either for boats to travel along or for taking water from one area to another
Sentence – He is recorded to have made this canal.
Cataract – a place in a river where the water falls to a lower level.
Sentence – The cataract had thundered in her imagination as long as she could remember.
Coral Reef – an area of coral, the top of which can sometimes be seen just above the sea.
Sentence – Belize is home to the world’s second biggest coral reef, and visitors should take a boat trip out to see it.
Cove – a curved part of a coast that partly surrounds an area of water
Sentence – It was squat and solid, in a cove, with outbuildings, some land and its own sandy bay.
Crater Lake – a round lake that has formed in the crater of a volcano.
Sentence – Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range.
Creek – a narrow area of water that flows into the land from the sea, a lake, etc.
Sentence – One evening, crossing a small creek, he pulled the car off the road.
Dam – a wall built across a river that stops the river’s flow and collects the water, especially to make a reservoir (= an artificial lake ) that provides water for an area.
Sentence – The Aswan Dam helps to control the River Nile in Egypt.
Delta – A delta is an area of low, flat land shaped like a triangle, where a river splits and spreads out into several branches before entering the sea.
Sentence – The Delta towns, and even Rangoon, came under threat.
Estuary – The wide part of a river at the place where it joins the sea
Sentence – At this point the river widens into an estuary.
