<P> Bodies of water are affected by gravity which is what creates the tidal effects on Earth . </P> <P> Note that there are some geographical features involving water that are not bodies of water, for example waterfalls, geysers and rapids . </P> <Ul> <Li> Arm of the sea - also sea arm, used to describe a sea loch . </Li> <Li> Arroyo - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally . See also wadi . </Li> <Li> Artificial lake or artificial pond - see Reservoir (impoundment). </Li> <Li> Barachois - a lagoon separated from the ocean by a sand bar . </Li> <Li> Basin - see Drainage basin . </Li> <Li> Bay - an area of water bordered by land on three sides, similar to, but smaller than a gulf . </Li> <Li> Bayou - a slow - moving stream or a marshy lake . </Li> <Li> Beck - a small stream . </Li> <Li> Bight - a large and often only slightly receding bay, or a bend in any geographical feature . </Li> <Li> Billabong - an oxbow lake in Australia; a pond or still body of water created when a river changes course and some water becomes trapped . </Li> <Li> Boil - see Seep </Li> <Li> Brook - a small stream . </Li> <Li> Burn - a small stream . </Li> <Li> Canal - an artificial waterway, usually connected to (and sometimes connecting) existing lakes, rivers, or oceans . </Li> <Li> Channel - the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks . See also stream bed and strait . </Li> <Li> Cove - a coastal landform . Earth scientists generally use the term to describe a circular or round inlet with a narrow entrance, though colloquially the term is sometimes used to describe any sheltered bay . </Li> <Li> Basin - a region of land where water from rain or snowmelt drains downhill into another body of water, such as a river, lake, or dam . </Li> <Li> Creek - a small stream . </Li> <Li> Creek (tidal) - an inlet of the sea, narrower than a cove . </Li> <Li> Delta - the location where a river flows into an ocean, sea, estuary, lake, or reservoir . </Li> <Li> Distributary or distributary channel - a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel . </Li> <Li> Draw - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally . See also wadi . </Li> <Li> Estuary - a semi-enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea </Li> <Li> Firth - a regional term of Scotland used to denote various coastal waters, such as large sea bays, estuaries, inlets, and straits . </Li> <Li> Fjord (fiord) - a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes . </Li> <Li> Glacier - a large collection of ice or a frozen river that moves slowly down a mountain . </Li> <Li> Glacial pothole - a kettle </Li> <Li> Gulf - a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides, similar to, but larger than a bay . </Li> <Li> Headland - an area of water bordered by land on three sides . </Li> <Li> Harbor - an artificial or naturally occurring body of water where ships are stored or may shelter from the ocean's weather and currents . </Li> <Li> Impoundment - an artificially - created body of water, by damming a source . Often used for flood control, as a drinking water supply (reservoir), recreation, ornamentation (artificial pond), or other purpose or combination of purposes . Note that the process of creating an "impoundment" of water is itself called "impoundment ." </Li> <Li> Inlet - a body of water, usually seawater, which has characteristics of one or more of the following: bay, cove, estuary, firth, fjord, geo, sea loch, or sound . </Li> <Li> Kettle (or kettle lake) - a shallow, sediment - filled body of water formed by retreating glaciers or draining floodwaters . </Li> <Li> Kill - used in areas of Dutch influence in New York, New Jersey and other areas of the former New Netherland colony of Dutch America to describe a strait, river, or arm of the sea . </Li> <Li> Lagoon - a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar feature . </Li> <Li> Lake - a body of water, usually freshwater, of relatively large size contained on a body of land . </Li> <Li> Loch - a body of water such as a lake, sea inlet, firth, fjord, estuary or bay . </Li> <Li> Mangrove swamp - Saline coastal habitat of mangrove trees and shrubs . </Li> <Li> Marsh - a wetland featuring grasses, rushes, reeds, typhas, sedges, and other herbaceous plants (possibly with low - growing woody plants) in a context of shallow water . See also Salt marsh . </Li> <Li> Mediterranean sea (oceanography) - a mostly enclosed sea that has limited exchange of deep water with outer oceans and where the water circulation is dominated by salinity and temperature differences rather than winds </Li> <Li> Mere - a lake or body of water that is broad in relation to its depth . </Li> <Li> Mill pond - a reservoir built to provide flowing water to a watermill </Li> <Li> Moat - a deep, broad trench, either dry or filled with water, surrounding and protecting a structure, installation, or town . </Li> <Li> Ocean - a major body of salty water that, in totality, covers about 71% of the Earth's surface . </Li> <Li> Oxbow lake - a U-shaped lake formed when a wide meander from the mainstem of a river is cut off to create a lake . </Li> <Li> Phytotelma - a small, discrete body of water held by some plants . </Li> <Li> Pool - various small bodies of water such as a swimming pool, reflecting pool, pond, or puddle . </Li> <Li> Pond - a body of water smaller than a lake, especially those of artificial origin . </Li> <Li> Pothole - see Kettle </Li> <Li> Puddle - a small accumulation of water on a surface, usually the ground . </Li> <Li> Reservoir - a place to store water for various uses, especially drinking water, which can be a natural or artificial (see Lake and Impoundment above) </Li> <Li> Rill - a shallow channel of running water . These can be either natural or man - made . </Li> <Li> River - a natural waterway usually formed by water derived from either precipitation or glacial meltwater, and flows from higher ground to lower ground . </Li> <Li> Roadstead - a place outside a harbor where a ship can lie at anchor; it is an enclosed area with an opening to the sea, narrower than a bay or gulf (often called a "roads"). </Li> <Li> Run - a small stream or part thereof, especially a smoothly flowing part of a stream . </Li> <Li> Salt marsh - a type of marsh that is a transitional zone between land and an area, such as a slough, bay, or estuary, with salty or brackish water . </Li> <Li> Sea - a large expanse of saline water connected with an ocean, or a large, usually saline, lake that lacks a natural outlet such as the Caspian Sea and the Dead Sea . In common usage, often synonymous with ocean . </Li> <Li> Sea loch - a sea inlet loch . </Li> <Li> Sea lough - a fjord, estuary, bay or sea inlet . </Li> <Li> Seep - a body of water formed by a spring . </Li> <Li> Slough - several different meanings related to wetland or aquatic features . </Li> <Li> Source - the original point from which the river or stream flows . A river's source is sometimes a spring . </Li> <Li> Sound - a large sea or ocean inlet larger than a bay, deeper than a bight, wider than a fjord, or it may identify a narrow sea or ocean channel between two bodies of land . </Li> <Li> Spring - a point where groundwater flows out of the ground, and is thus where the aquifer surface meets the ground surface </Li> <Li> Strait - a narrow channel of water that connects two larger bodies of water, and thus lies between two land masses . </Li> <Li> Stream - a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks . </Li> <Li> Subglacial lake - a lake that is permanently covered by ice and whose water remains liquid by the pressure of the ice sheet and geothermal heating . They often occur under glaciers or ice caps . Lake Vostok in Antarctica is an example . </Li> <Li> Swamp - a wetland that features permanent inundation of large areas of land by shallow bodies of water, generally with a substantial number of hummocks, or dry - land protrusions . </Li> <Li> Tarn - a mountain lake or pool formed in a cirque excavated by a glacier . </Li> <Li> Tide pool - a rocky pool adjacent to an ocean and filled with seawater . </Li> <Li> Tributary or affluent - a stream or river that flows into a main stem (or parent) river or a lake . </Li> <Li> Vernal pool - a shallow, natural depression in level ground, with no permanent above - ground outlet, that holds water seasonally . </Li> <Li> Wadi - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally . See also Arroyo (creek). </Li> <Li> Wash - a usually dry creek bed or gulch that temporarily fills with water after a heavy rain, or seasonally . See also wadi . </Li> <Li> Wetland - an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and truly aquatic systems making them different from each yet highly dependent on both". </Li> </Ul> <Li> Arm of the sea - also sea arm, used to describe a sea loch . </Li>

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