water bodies
Lakes and oceans
Water bodies are natural or artificial accumulations of water on Earth's surface—lakes, rivers, oceans, ponds, reservoirs, and the like.
The term appears most often in environmental, geographic, and regulatory contexts: The EPA monitors pollutants in local water bodies.
A single lake or stream is a water body.
- lakesLarge inland water bodies
- oxbow lakeSevered meander's pooled remains
- straitsConnecting water channels
- oceansVast saltwater bodies
- riversFlowing bodies of water
streams · wetlands · ponds · harbors · watering hole · estuaries · atoll · loch · tarn · fjord · deep sea · limnology · billabong · swimming hole · freshwater habitats · hydrology · murky · swimming
- hydrology mappingflood zones, hydrography, lake levels
- decompositiondecomposition, rot, rotting, autolysis, putrefaction
- ecological datawildlife monitoring, population density, ecosystem health, keystone species
- environmentair pollution, ecology, clean air, biosphere, air quality
- geographycontinents, continent, oceans, countries, country
- landformsmountain, cliff, valley, volcano, mountain ridge
water bodiesland masses
Areas of solid ground
landforms · continents · dry land · terra firma · land
water bodiesland masses
Areas of solid ground
bedrock · ground · rock formations · arid regions · ice sheets
water bodiesdeserts
Abandons or barren lands
arid lands · wastelands · drylands · parched earth · dustbowls