According to quora, a bay is a body of water, coastal or otherwise, with a single connection to a single larger body of water while a sound is a coastal waterway that connects in two or more places to one or more bodies of water.

Nacktmull@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

Interesting, that would make the depiction of a sound in the picture incorrect.

Aedis@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I'm not sure that's correct though because then there would be no difference between sound and fjord. Also by that definition would the Puget Sound not be a sound?

Fjord: Valley created by glacier flow that is the filled with water to create islands

Sound: Natural Valley produced by underground movement filled with water to create islands

Aedis@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Are you asking cause this picture seems to say they are the same thing or because you want to know? Haha

fidodo@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y

Every open world game map

CluckN@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y

God my teacher used this image to teach us all the geography terms. Instant memories of certain sections being blown up to the point where you could count the pixels.

wise_pancake@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 2y (7 replies)

How do I actually pronounce archipelago?

I see it in text but I've never heard a human say it out loud.

Is it soft like Archie, or hard like arch? Is "Lago" like Lago or Lego?

NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee · 16 pts · 2y

Ar-keh-pell-ah-go is how I've always heard it.

TechLich@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

It's a hard K sound and the i and a are "uh" (ə) sounds. Like "Ark uh pel uh go" (at least in my accent).

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/archipelago

Click the speaker icon to hear it

wise_pancake@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Okay... I've been pronouncing it wrong... like arki-pel-Ah-go

BearOfaTime@lemm.ee · -1 pts · 2y

Me too.

And many other people.

I'm not changing. 😁

ganksy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I've always pronounced it "ark-e-pell-ago" but I think "ar hie-pell-ago" is equally correct. The ego/ago thing is the same.

SeabassDan@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

I'll keep saying ar-chih-puh-LAH-go because I don't actually plan on every saying it out loud to anyone

SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Difference between river and strait?

nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 9 pts · 2y

Strait is connecting two large bodies of water while a river is what drains a land mass. Something like that.

Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Such a throwback, my dad had this poster in the hall at little kid height and i remember sitting and looking at it and wanting to be a geologist

alyth@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y (1 reply)

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Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 2y

no, I majored in math and now I'm a software engineer xD

radicalautonomy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

I had this exact poster up in my classroom back when I taught 4th grade.

samus12345@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y

The lack of estuary is why places like the San Francisco Bay are misnamed.

sqw@lemmy.sdf.org · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

what differentiates a cape from a peninsula

morphballganon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Or a sound from a bay

Squirrel@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 2y

That butte does not match the buttes I've seen in real life. Then again, I've only seen the ones near my parents, in Oregon.

Skanky@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

So, being from the south, where is "bluff" and "creek"?

Atemu@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y (2 replies)

What's the difference between a plateau and a mesa?

starman2112@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y

Apparently it's to do with what they're made of. A geologist can and should correct me, but I think mesas are made of flat layers of different rocks, and plateus are made of a single solid material

sqw@lemmy.sdf.org · 0 pts · 2y

i think mesa is fully surrounded by lower land but plateau just has to be elevated and flat, could be connected to other highlands.