freshwater bodies
Non-saline water features
Freshwater bodies are lakes, rivers, ponds, streams, and other natural water formations that contain little or no salt, as opposed to oceans and seas.
The term appears in scientific and environmental contexts: Freshwater bodies support diverse ecosystems, pollution threatens freshwater bodies worldwide.
Wetlands and reservoirs may also qualify.
- reservoirLarge water storage basin
- biodiversityRange of life forms
- riverLarge flowing watercourse
- mountain streamFlowing water descending highlands
- lakeEnclosed body of freshwater
glacial lake · dam · beaver dam · pond · fishing hole · swimming hole · endemic species · precipitation · habitat · loch · wetland · evaporation · tarn · oxbow lake · watershed · aquifer · marsh · lily pad
freshwater bodiesoceans
Vast saltwater bodies
seas · marine environments · the ocean · salt lakes · seawater
freshwater bodiesrivers
Flowing bodies of water
streams · creeks · waterfalls · rapids · runoff
freshwater bodiesdry land
Earth above water
land · deserts · arid regions · drylands · terra firma
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