What Do Body Of Water Names Mean?

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    Bay Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/bay#e...
    Cove: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
    Cove Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/cove#...
    Sound: www.worldatlas.com/articles/w...
    Sound Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/sound...
    River: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
    River Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/river...
    Stream: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
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    Tributary: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
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    Estuary: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
    Estuary Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/estua...
    Delta: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
    Delta Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/delta...
    Brook: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
    Brook Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/brook...
    Lake: www.etymonline.com/search?q=lake
    Lake Etymology: www.etymonline.com/search?q=lake
    Oxbow Lake: www.nationalgeographic.org/en...
    Oxbow Lake Etymology: www.etymonline.com/search?q=o...
    Pond: ypte.org.uk/factsheets/ponds/...
    Pond Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/pond#...
    Canal: www.britannica.com/technology...
    Canal Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/canal...
    Moat: wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-d...
    Moat Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/moat#...
    Puddle: dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
    Puddle Etymology: www.etymonline.com/word/puddl...
    Phytotelma: torontobotanicalgarden.ca/blo...
    Phytotelma Etymology: en.wiktionary.org/wiki/phytot...

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  • @stevencook388
    @stevencook388 4 ปีที่แล้ว +111

    “The word water came from the word “wod-or” meaning water” loled at that

    • @Nugcon
      @Nugcon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      The floor is indeed made out of floor

    • @jackrotz2139
      @jackrotz2139 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      If he was from the states, he would've added that it also originated in philadelphia

    • @binaryglitch64
      @binaryglitch64 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      ↑ For people who didn't get @Jack Rotz's joke ↑
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      [SPOILER WARNING: Explaining jokes ruins them.]
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      _Some people from Philly pronounce water_ 'wod-or' ...

    • @beargreen1
      @beargreen1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It seems they got it right from the beginning

  • @jeffreyfox5833
    @jeffreyfox5833 4 ปีที่แล้ว +219

    you, a fool: gulf
    me, an intellectual: reverse peninsula

    • @CRG2100
      @CRG2100 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      You the fool: reverse peninsula
      Me, the intellectual: Sea tiddy

    • @jeffreyfox5833
      @jeffreyfox5833 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Craig Anuszkiewiez i concede defeat 😂

    • @bear8284
      @bear8284 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      you, a fool: reverse peninsula
      me, an intellectual: peninsulan’t

    • @cyrilfiggis7978
      @cyrilfiggis7978 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      I search for humour and always find it in YT comments

  • @explorernate
    @explorernate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +338

    "and Birmingham" lmao ded

    • @WaterShowsProd
      @WaterShowsProd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      I laughed out loud too. Sorry, Birmingham.

    • @davegreenlaw5654
      @davegreenlaw5654 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      It was the way he said it that killed me.

    • @Ggdivhjkjl
      @Ggdivhjkjl 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He pronounced the word as the place in the UK is said.

    • @jamesuthmann940
      @jamesuthmann940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@Ggdivhjkjl I don't think Dave Greenlaw meant pronunciation, but tone; as if "Of course when thinking of 'Romantic Cities with canals' Birmingham is right up there with Venice and Amsterdam, it's just obvious!"

    • @user-rh1jo1yy9e
      @user-rh1jo1yy9e 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why do the English hate Birmingham and Liverpool so much lol

  • @23snowy23
    @23snowy23 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    My favourite body of water is a Tarn.
    Generally means body of fresh water elevated on mountain, a great place to wild camp beside.

    • @ShrektheHulk
      @ShrektheHulk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      does that also include water that collects in crevices and dips in stone? like phytotelma but for rocks, or would that be called petrotelma

  • @NameExplain
    @NameExplain  4 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    Click read more for the answers to the quiz at the end of the video!
    A = GULF (Gulf of Venice)
    B = TRIBUTARY (Tributaries of the Thames)
    C = STRAIT (Palk Strait)
    Who got them all right?

  • @rlevitta
    @rlevitta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Here in New York (also Pennsylvania and Delaware), there's also a "Kill" - which is a dutch word left over from when the Dutch settled here. It means "channel or creek." Examples are Arthur Kill and Bronx Kill. It's also used in place names near bodies of water like Fishkill, and Catskill. By the way, the idiots at PETA tried to get the town of Fishkill to change the name of the town so it didn't celebrate killing fish. I guess they didn't do their research. Anyway, in the USA, particularly in the south, there's the term "Run" - like Bull Run - which seems to be synonymous with "Stream" or "River." It probably just comes from "running water." You also didn't talk about swamps - I guess you guys call them "bogs?" Also, a swamp near a larger body of water could be a "wetland."

    • @crazymusicchick
      @crazymusicchick 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Bob Levittan lol stupid peta

    • @arikwolf3777
      @arikwolf3777 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      So it's Cats Kill but pronounce Cat Skill. Yeap, Peta is stupid. Killing cats is way worst than killing fish.

    • @sundalongpatpat
      @sundalongpatpat 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Swamps are actually both a body of water and land.

    • @Mukmeen
      @Mukmeen 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Philadelphia we have a schuylkill river

    • @mbww8572
      @mbww8572 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Don’t forget the Murderkill Hundred

  • @prashantsharma4427
    @prashantsharma4427 4 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    Iet me guess
    A: Gulf
    B: Tributary
    C:Strait
    Forgive me Patrick if I am wrong

  • @SickLid242
    @SickLid242 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    As I had learned in my aquatic ecology class many years ago, the limnologist (lake scientist) definition/difference between a pond and a lake is that a lake is too deep for rooted aquatic plants to grow, except in the shallows, whereas a pond could have rooted plants across it's width. Of course it's a little arbitrary due to local conditions

  • @metalfarmer8151
    @metalfarmer8151 4 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    Oxbow lakes are formed when a river's meander
    gets too wibbly, wibbly, wobbly to maintain the course it's on
    The main flow of the stream diverts itself accordingly
    Leaving the oxbow lake behind

    • @Virtrial
      @Virtrial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      But here's my question son
      What the hell's an oxbow ?
      Are our bovine friends fashioning weaponry ?
      Someone to tell me, do I need to buy a shield ?

    • @recklessroges
      @recklessroges 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Virtrial Maybe watch this video?

    • @mrslinkydragon9910
      @mrslinkydragon9910 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@recklessroges you dont get it do you?

    • @Virtrial
      @Virtrial 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@recklessroges bruh it's a song from like 9 years ago ya goof

    • @ProjectEchoshadow
      @ProjectEchoshadow 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Now I want pie

  • @shruggzdastr8-facedclown
    @shruggzdastr8-facedclown 4 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Similar to "creek" is the word "crick" where, depending upon geographical colloquial usage in different parts of the U.S., can be interchangeable with one another, but in other places one would use crick when referring to a small creek. Another word used in parts of the U.S. to describe small streams is "run"

    • @karlfoarile8056
      @karlfoarile8056 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I think runs are usually used for streams that are seasonal or intermittent in nature. That is when it's dry or during the dry season, the watercourse is dry and empty and water only flows in it after a rainfall.

    • @MrFmiller
      @MrFmiller 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I thought it was a pain in the back. I guess that’s ‘cause I’m a Nutherner.

    • @camdensnyder8894
      @camdensnyder8894 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      My parents are from Nebraska, and everyone in Nebraska says crick, instead of creek. I kinda go back and forth, depending on who I'm talking to. The weird thing is that Denver is very close to the panhandle of Nebraska, but in Denver, nobody says crick (seriously. People even get confused sometimes when I accidentally say crick instead of creek), whereas it is impossible to find anyone that doesn't say crick in Nebraska. It's great.

    • @GregInHouston2
      @GregInHouston2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@karlfoarile8056 I've seen the name "wash" used for a stream that is intermittent.

    • @Nero-ho6gt
      @Nero-ho6gt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Go on down to de crick and pull a tar out of de wooder, then pour some ool on de tar an light de tar on far.

  • @Myrtle2911
    @Myrtle2911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    Another vote for the Puget Sound. I've lived minutes from it my whole life.
    Not all rivers flow into a sea or ocean.
    The Okavango River in Botswana does not flow into any sea or ocean. Instead, all the water flows into a depression and forms the Okavango Delta inland. All the water reaching the delta is ultimately evaporated and transpired and does not flow into any sea or ocean.
    The Jordan River flows into the "Dead Sea" which is actually a really big, really salty lake. There is no outlet to the ocean.

    • @babyinuyasha
      @babyinuyasha 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It got its name from a British explorer named Peter Puget

    • @Leathurkatt
      @Leathurkatt 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I was born and raised in Tacoma. I know Puget Sound and the Narrows well. :)

    • @davidlikesramen5661
      @davidlikesramen5661 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Okavango river be sad

    • @AlphaFX-kv4ud
      @AlphaFX-kv4ud 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He made me question my entire existence when he said lakes have to be fresh water while I'm only and hour drive away from Salt Lake city aka the capital of Utah

    • @shibolinemress8913
      @shibolinemress8913 ปีที่แล้ว

      Dead Sea: Water checks in, it doesn't check out. 😄

  • @elijahkinnane2730
    @elijahkinnane2730 4 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I deadset was meaning to look this up, what perfect timing

  • @delta4900
    @delta4900 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    The Puget Sound fulfils both definitions.

  • @DrZalmat
    @DrZalmat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oxbow lakes are called "Altwasser" in German, which means literally translated old water, since they are old leftover parts of rivers

  • @taitano12
    @taitano12 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Like with most things involving sailing and the ocean, a lot of things have different names depending on circumstances. For instance: A rope becomes a line when in general use, a sheet when controlling a sail, a painter when towing, etc; a bunk is a rack if it's used by multiple sailors. Likewise, a bay can become a harbor if used as such and, usually anyway, is inhabited landside.

  • @HotStepper89
    @HotStepper89 4 ปีที่แล้ว +68

    I assume you meant the "dead sea" instead of the "black sea", since black sea is connected to the mediterranean sea @ 09:56

    • @TheSpiritombsableye
      @TheSpiritombsableye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Patrick really should start checking his work before posting.

    • @TheSpiritombsableye
      @TheSpiritombsableye 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      But he did mean Black Sea, as you look at his earlier picture of the Mediterranean Sea.

    • @seans6999
      @seans6999 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My brain exploded when he said that

    • @bradlemmond
      @bradlemmond 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Or the Aral Sea, which is close to the Caspian. At least, what is left of the Aral Sea.

    • @yarone5960
      @yarone5960 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The dead sea is a salt lake - its water does not flow any where but evaporates
      This leads to the the true error in the video - tht all rivers connect back to the ocean

  • @BeastOfTraal
    @BeastOfTraal 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

    A few not mentioned Lagoon, Bayou, Branch, Distributary

    • @piperar2014
      @piperar2014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      A bayou is a slow moving coastal river. They originate and terminate on the coastal plane and are often swampy. Buffalo Bayou in Houston Texas is an example.
      A distributary is the opposite of a tributary, a smaller river leaving the larger. An example is the Atchafalaya River which breaks away from the Mississippi and drains to the gulf of Mexico in a separate channel.

    • @piperar2014
      @piperar2014 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      The Red River wasn't always part of the Mississippi system. Previously it had its own drainage to the Gulf of Mexico. The Red drifted east and the Mississippi drifted west until they met. The Atchafalaya is more or less the Red Rivers old path to the sea. Left on its own, the Mississippi would change course to the Atchafalaya basin. This would be really bad for Baton Rouge and New Orleans, so the Army Corps of Engineers maintains dams and levees to prevent this. But there are also drainage canals from the Mississippi to the Atchafalaya so that during flooding water from the Mississippi can be diverted.

    • @THSTigervision
      @THSTigervision 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@piperar2014 those drainage canals are called spillways. I live along Bayou Lafourche, a tributary of the Mississippi.

    • @lesnyk255
      @lesnyk255 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      marsh, swamp, bog freshet, rill, meander, runoff, cataract, inlet, cove, harbor... this could easily have been a 60 minute documentary

    • @guilhermerafaelzimermann4196
      @guilhermerafaelzimermann4196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@piperar2014 are you telling me that there is actually a name for those things evey DnD map maker complains about people doing?
      Are you saying then that it is a real (althought not common) thing for a river to split somewhere that Isn't it's delta?

  • @kipdude1
    @kipdude1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This is the earliest I have been to a Name Explain video or any video for that matter...

  • @loosegoose4703
    @loosegoose4703 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    billabong is one of my favourite words. its fun to say

    • @sohopedeco
      @sohopedeco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I just learned now it wasn't just the name of a clothing brand. 😅

    • @marshallferron
      @marshallferron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Australian aboriginal languages have given us so many fun to say words. Didgeridoo, wallaby, bunyip, kookaburra, wombat, numbat, woomera...

    • @nssherlock4547
      @nssherlock4547 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@marshallferronlots not forget , gotabungerdare cuz.

    • @digitalnomad9985
      @digitalnomad9985 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As a Yank, I'm a word closer to understanding "Waltzing Matilda".

    • @crazymusicchick
      @crazymusicchick 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      It’s also an ice cream name lol

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In Western Pennsylvania creek is pronounced "crick". Such as "Arnold Slick from Turtle Crick"

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Not all rivers empty into the ocean. Any that run to an endorheic basin terminate in whatever body of water is at the bottom, such as the Volga River
    to the Caspian Sea.

    • @phylliss3995
      @phylliss3995 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      And the Jordan River flows into the Dead Sea

    • @marshallferron
      @marshallferron 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They don't all flow into other bodies of water either.

    • @recklessroges
      @recklessroges 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Depends on the language. In French there is a separate word for rivers that flow into the sea/ocean and rivers that don't.

    • @TimothyGaetke
      @TimothyGaetke 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes! This applies to the 209,162-square-mile (541,730 sq km) Great Basin of the USA, which is actually a bunch of smaller basins. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Basin#Hydrology

    • @pulsarstudios3646
      @pulsarstudios3646 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      well technically he did say that they empty into oceans OR SEAS. but don't judje me as i could be mistaken. i like rivers

  • @octoberboiy
    @octoberboiy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for this channel. It’s very fascinating!

  • @shibolinemress8913
    @shibolinemress8913 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Phytotelma" is my new favourite water body name! 😊 Reminds me of the office watercoolers that draw gossipers like flies! 🤣

  • @GeographyWorld
    @GeographyWorld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    The Sargasso Sea isn't surrounded by land.

    • @lindenmcdiarmid2009
      @lindenmcdiarmid2009 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Geography World yeah thats kind of odd

    • @512TheWolf512
      @512TheWolf512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      neither are any of the seas on the Moon

    • @GeographyWorld
      @GeographyWorld 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@512TheWolf512 Good point.

    • @LucarioBoricua
      @LucarioBoricua 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Some seas (and even oceans) are distinguished by clearly differing water conditions. The Sargasso Sea is a gyre of the Atlantic Ocean, as it's entirely surrounded by marine currents. These relatively calm waters host the namesake algae, the sargasso. Meanwhile, the distinction between the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean has to do with sea current temperatures, same as the distinction of the Antarctic Ocean versus the Pacific, Indian and Atlantic. The Antarctic Ocean is essentially a vortex of cold currents keeping Antarctica cold and isolated from the other big oceans.

    • @skelet8337
      @skelet8337 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some seas aren't seas Caspian sea is a lake but called sea bcs of it's size

  • @EMNstar
    @EMNstar 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Growing up in Georgia, USA, creeks (or sometimes I heard pronounced as "cricks") were smaller and shallower than streams, with slower moving water.

  • @BlandTomtarOchTroll
    @BlandTomtarOchTroll 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Informative and interesting. Thank you for teaching me something today!

  • @amiscellaneoushuman3516
    @amiscellaneoushuman3516 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Technically, most moats weren't filled with water historically so counting "moat" as the name of a body of water is cheating slightly.

    • @AlvinBalvin321
      @AlvinBalvin321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I fill them with lava
      In minecraft

    • @SilverMe2004
      @SilverMe2004 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And while there is no evidence of there ever being a crocodile filled moat there was one that had bears in it.

    • @Markle2k
      @Markle2k 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SilverMe2004 But wasn't that sort of a private zoo.

  • @tomlynch8114
    @tomlynch8114 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There are a couple of terms used in parts of the UK instead of stream. In much of the North East of England as well as in Scotland, streams get called Burns. Newcastle has the Ouseburn, Pandon Burn, Lort Burn and Skinnerburn, all of which are tributaries of the River Tyne.
    A bit further south, down in Yorkshire, the term Beck is used instead of stream.

  • @thezpn
    @thezpn 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Spring, an upwell of ground water
    Well, a man-made pit to access ground water
    Tide Pool - ponds that connect to a larger body of water at high tide, but are separate at low tide

  • @HalfEye79
    @HalfEye79 4 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    Here are the german names of the bodies of water:
    Der Ozean: Just the ocean.
    Das Meer: The sea.
    Der Golf: a Gulf
    Die Bucht: A bay.
    Der Busen: A bight. (Only example, I know, is the Jadebusen / Jade Bight).
    Der Fluss: A river.
    Der Strom: A Stream:
    Der Bach: A creek.
    Der See: A lake.
    Der Teich: A pond.
    Sometimes, the names can be used a bit different.
    So most sailors say call large bodies of water "die See". And the oceans are called "Weltmeere".
    Sometimes, the Atlantic Ocean is called "der große Teich" (the big pond).

    • @MrGollum1996
      @MrGollum1996 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Half Eye der see: the lake
      Die see: the sea/ocean

    • @fermintenava5911
      @fermintenava5911 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You also forgot that we use the word "Sund" and "Belte" from nordic languages, as well as the word "Meeresstraße" and "Meerenge". All of them can be synonymous for "strait", which is why we call it "die Straße von Gibraltar".
      Further:
      Die Pfütze: A puddle.
      Das Wasserloch: An oasis.
      Der Wasserlauf: A run of water.

    • @jamescook2412
      @jamescook2412 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      So why is the Baltic sea called "Ostsee" in German? Shouldn't it be "Ostmeer"?

    • @HalfEye79
      @HalfEye79 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jamescook2412
      I don`t really know. But I think it is because of "die See" (its "die Ostsee"). In this context that would make sense.
      The same would be true with "die Nordsee". "Das Nordmeer" is, if I`m correct, the ocean, sea or whatever, with the Arctic in it.

    • @tygrkhat4087
      @tygrkhat4087 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wohin geht Peter? Peter geht an den See. This was the first thing I learned in my high school German class in 1975.

  • @mori6318
    @mori6318 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Water

  • @user-vn7ce5ig1z
    @user-vn7ce5ig1z 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    4:38 - A strait is a short cut between land masses; a channel is long, more like a river.
    11:20 - Ah, yes, the canals of Birmingham are so romantic, they'll make anybody wet.
    11:30 - Filling your moat with water is for noobs; a pro fills it with lava, because you can't make a infinite lava sources.
    • I could have sworn you mentioned a fjord. 🤔

    • @emilchandran546
      @emilchandran546 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Bass Strait is not so small or narrow.

    • @dangermus74
      @dangermus74 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Emil Chandran neither is Torres Strait

    • @erossummer9344
      @erossummer9344 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      - so is the Strait of Malacca

  • @littlelolex11
    @littlelolex11 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There's also a run which is just like a river/creek/brooke/etc. But it's source is via a spring.

    • @damonwilliams5845
      @damonwilliams5845 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Streams are defined as flowing water narrow enough to be stepped across by an average sized man. Any body of moving water is a creek, tributary, river, etc.

  • @zhubajie6940
    @zhubajie6940 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For the freshwater bodies, I was told that a puddle and a stream/brook you can jump over, a creek/run, and a pond you can throw a rock over and rivers and lakes are even bigger. So when a puddle gets too big to jump over it is a pond no matter how shallow or temporary.

  • @KyleTales
    @KyleTales 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I was so surprised to see Carter Lake, in my home town of Omaha, in your video! I had no idea it was called a Oxbow Lake. This is also a great example of why using geographical formations, like rivers, to set boarders isn't always a good idea. Carter Lake was once part of the Missouri River, which separates Iowa from Nebraska. In 1877 the river flooded and changed course, creating this Oxbow Lake. Now the land south of the lake (known as the City of Carter Lake), is the only City in Iowa that is west of the Missouri River, and is almost completely surrounded by the City of Omaha Nebraska.

  • @TheAvatar.
    @TheAvatar. 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very informative video. Thank you !

  • @WaterShowsProd
    @WaterShowsProd 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fjords are cliffs which were carved by glaciers and lead down to bodies of water. The southernmost fjords in The Northern Hemisphere are The Palisades on The Hudson River to The North and West of New York City.

  • @wachyfanning
    @wachyfanning 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Honestly I'd love to see a video explaining how we came to name the different time periods and eras (like cretaceous, or paleozoic)

  • @Dingomush
    @Dingomush 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Just a bit here. A Pond is shallow enough for the sunlight to penetrate to the bottom, a Lake is deeper. A Stream or Creek is a seasonal flowing body of water, if they don’t stop flowing in the middle of the summer then they are a River.

    • @kohakuaiko
      @kohakuaiko 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      By that definition Turnback Creek and Spring River are backwards.

  • @nitehawk86
    @nitehawk86 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    The English Gutter. Sounds like something the French would call it.

    • @TrulySpeechless
      @TrulySpeechless 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fun Fact: in French, it is called the Sleeve (la Manche).

  • @jonesoghuvwu8614
    @jonesoghuvwu8614 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really needed this information

  • @amiejg1654
    @amiejg1654 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    What a fabulous video. Most helpful when helping my son with his homework about different bodies of water.

  • @dyrcosis
    @dyrcosis 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Phytotelma is my new favorite word! Of course there's a name for the relatively small amount of water a plant can collect. I just never thought to look it up!

  • @AverytheCubanAmerican
    @AverytheCubanAmerican 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like the Caribbean Sea, it's where you'll find a pirate wondering why's the rum gone

  • @snazzyquizzes2336
    @snazzyquizzes2336 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Useful water-related info. I didn't already know about deltas and estuaries.

  • @muderschaferhund
    @muderschaferhund 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually live near Carter Lake! It's so weird, when you're driving to the Omaha airport you pass state lines into Iowa and back into Nebraska in the span of minutes because of the Oxbow Lake.

  • @SledgerFromTDS.
    @SledgerFromTDS. 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Omg thanks Patrick for making this video about every single type of bodies of water

  • @alexspareone3872
    @alexspareone3872 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The term "creek" furnishes me with a good anecdote of how ignorant people exhibit thought processes that are fouled up. My mother and an aunt were driving somewhere when they mentioned a creek. I was about 12. I asked, "whats a creek". Answer from my mother "its a creek". I tried again "whats a creek". Same answer but louder "ITS A CREEK". "But what IS a creek". Then she was getting angry, "Its a creek , you KNOW what a creek is, stop being stupid". Who was being stupid. That always stuck in my memory as an example of an all too common mental set blocking sensible communication.

  • @TomKellyXY
    @TomKellyXY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    New Zealand also uses “burn” and “awa” for streams due to Scottish and Polynesian influences.

  • @petersattler4577
    @petersattler4577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This will help me be more accurate with my world building. Thanks

  • @LordS20000
    @LordS20000 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The springs are upset with you for leaving them out 🤣

  • @14067913
    @14067913 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    My old Geography teacher explained the difference between a Bay and a Gulf.
    You take a bite out of a piece of bread, the missing bread is in the shape of a bay.
    Your dog takes a bite, it's in the shape of a gulf.

    • @ObaJu
      @ObaJu 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s not a great explanation

    • @SilentCreepa22
      @SilentCreepa22 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That explanation sucks

  • @Random2
    @Random2 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You skipped my favorite body of water. I sense a great disturbance in the fjords...

  • @MateoQuixote
    @MateoQuixote 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A great example of a sound is the Puget Sound in the Seattle area

  • @RocketMagnetUK
    @RocketMagnetUK 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Some more additions:
    1. Tarn (Small mountain lake in a glacial Corrie.. See Watendlath Tarn).
    2. Beck (Small river like a Brook)
    3. Mere (Basically a Lake .. e.g. Thirlmere)

  • @roberthayden5865
    @roberthayden5865 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is useful and needed in society

  • @e-maginethise-t3935
    @e-maginethise-t3935 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    2:06 sounded like he said. "I hate to explain" LOL

  • @Xaiff
    @Xaiff 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In time, Wod-Or became Hod-Or

  • @lotgc
    @lotgc 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I think it's a matter of perspective. I was born and raised in Utah, and ask the rivers I had seen were no more than like, 20 feet wide and 5 feet deep.
    Then I moved to Alaska and ran into several 'streams' that were *atleast* five times as big as those dimensions, and the 'rivers' were basically indistinguishable from the ocean or a Lake

  • @bmeares
    @bmeares 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Don't forget about the English word "mere," which is related to the German word "das Meer," meaning sea. My last name Meares means "one who lives by the mere" (think of the name Brooks).

  • @t71024
    @t71024 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @7:40 Not all rivers flow back into the sea. Some flow into dry basins. For example, the Truckee River flows from Lake Tahoe to Pyramid Lake, which is a salt lake.
    By the way, have you heard that Truckee wanted to be named after the local native chief but it found an error. Actually, the nearby Winnemucca was more properly named after the chief. It turns out "truckee" means "hello".

  • @NRBD2
    @NRBD2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where I grew up in eastern Canada, on a very big river, you could sail along a reach until you came to an arm.

  • @linksfood
    @linksfood 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    For delta, I almost think the lower case greek letter works better. It’s a thin, squigly bit that leads ro a large, round bit like a small stream leading to an ocean. δ

  • @christophersobieszczyk9234
    @christophersobieszczyk9234 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Live this channel

  • @beargreen1
    @beargreen1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's so interesting how many terms for a body of water there is.

  • @amehak1922
    @amehak1922 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Huge nerd here, I knew most of this stuff already. Geography geek.

  • @WUStLBear82
    @WUStLBear82 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A possibly unique usage of "canal" applied to a natural body of water is Hood Canal, which separates the Olympic Peninsula from the Kitsap Peninsula in northwest Washington state in the USA. It's technically a fjord, and was apparently named "Hood's Channel" in honor of Admiral Lord Hood by Captain Vancouver during his explorations. However, he spelt it "Canal" on his nautical charts, and that is the official name later approved by the US Department of the Interior's Board of Geographic Names.

  • @Sb129
    @Sb129 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Living south central AZ we mostly have washes and runs which would be a creek some of the time but usually is dry

    • @TimothyGaetke
      @TimothyGaetke 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      We also have rivers without water (the Santa Cruz River in Tucson). I think that's breaking some rules about what a river is...

  • @peterdavy6110
    @peterdavy6110 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    In the UK, a "creek" is traditionally a stream that has a tide. Barking Creek off the River Thames in East London for instance.

  • @sohopedeco
    @sohopedeco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I had always wondered why it was called the English _channel_ but the Panama _canal._ In Portuguese, we call them both "canal".

  • @HummingPhoenix
    @HummingPhoenix 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    in dutch, an oxbow lake is called "hoefijzermeer", which means horseshoe lake, because of the shape

  • @agrajag4224
    @agrajag4224 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have also heard of the word "tarn" meaning a mountain lake.

  • @chanceDdog2009
    @chanceDdog2009 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    You are one cheeky bloke..
    Greetings from Puerto Rico...

  • @oasisline6415
    @oasisline6415 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pugent sound is like the first thing I thought of when you said sound it may just be because I love in the U.S. but pretty sure a lot of people think of it because of Seattle

  • @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks
    @TheObsesedAnimeFreaks 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    a sound is a calm body of water typically but not necessary enclosed by land on most sides, the resulting body of water is generally calmer then the rest of the body or water.
    an example of a sound that isn't enclosed by water is a river sound, which typically are bodies of water that exists opposite to the flow of water resulting in a stagnant stable body of water connected and fed by a river or lake.

  • @EvilParagon4
    @EvilParagon4 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    When you mentioned Oxbow Lakes at the start of the video, I was confused what that could be, until you explained that I would know of them as Billabongs, lmao.

  • @wayner396
    @wayner396 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Every creek I've know is a small stream in the middle of a forested area often in mountains. So that might might have something to it.

  • @SledgerFromTDS.
    @SledgerFromTDS. 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Cove =. A much smaller level of tiny O's
    Sound =. A stray/A swimming
    Rivers =. A Water way through a landmass
    Stream =. A Small/ Narrow/ Shallow river
    Tributary =. A tiny stream that flows in A big stream

  • @luizfellipe3291
    @luizfellipe3291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Please make a video about origins of name of fire-related things

    • @sohopedeco
      @sohopedeco 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Weird how, unlike Portuguese, there seam to be few fire-related words in English. "Fogo", "fogueira" and "incêndio" are all translated as "fire".

    • @luizfellipe3291
      @luizfellipe3291 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@sohopedeco
      Ignição(ignition)

  • @GabZonY
    @GabZonY 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    that illustration of how an oxbow lake forms is kind of misleading! they're usually formed as the curves of a river grow wider as a result of the water removing sediment from the banks and depositing it further up the curve, eventually leading to the curve growing large enough to intersect itself and thus giving the river a new, more straight forward path. the previous path the river took gets cut off as the water flows down the path of least resistance, leaving behind an oxbow lake.
    minute earth has a great video explaining how it works that i recommend checking out!

  • @ptaylor25
    @ptaylor25 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The primary difference between a pond and a lake is that with a pond sunlight penetrates to the bottom over the entirety of the body. Whereas with a lake, there are parts of the bottom sunlight will never hit. The lake near my home is actually quite shallow being only 22 feet at it's deepest point, but since the runoff from the local watershed is tinted by the surrounding vegetation (think of it as a very weak tea) light tends to peter out after only 10-15 feet (depending on the time of year)

  • @SWLinPHX
    @SWLinPHX 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Pretty thorough job Patrick! ...can any of you think of bodies of water he missed? Like a fall, an inlet, a lagoon, a cape, a swamp, a marsh or a bayou?

    • @SWLinPHX
      @SWLinPHX 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Some of these bodies of waters are subcategories or types of other bodies of water. I think a stream through a forest or wooded area is a creek. And a very narrow and shallow small creek is a brook. I think a very small private cove that may feature a lot of lush foliage and even a waterfall would be a lagoon.

  • @sms17762000
    @sms17762000 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    In my part of the US the difference between a creek and a stream is the creak is more prone to dry up. If it has water all year round it is a stream. Streams are tributaries, they will not flow directly to a river.

  • @jpsned
    @jpsned 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    6:58 A good example of a sound is Long Island Sound, located to the north of New York's Long Island. 🙂

  • @Virtrial
    @Virtrial 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    11:20 I'm crying lmaooo

  • @clabood
    @clabood 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In Australia we have Lagoons. I believe this is another word for estuary. As they are also can be described as marshland as well.

  • @danieladownie6087
    @danieladownie6087 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    love it!

  • @jakemauger8377
    @jakemauger8377 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    A sound is a body of salty or brackish water connected to the ocean that is protected by a barrier island. A good example is the Long Island Sound or Barnegat Sound.

  • @gustavsvensson1944
    @gustavsvensson1944 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Where apis Patrick/Name explain from? I’ve wondered for a while now! Lol
    + That single person who disliked must’ve miss-clicked the like-button... Like cmon, how can you not like this video?

  • @alexanderishere6205
    @alexanderishere6205 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good job

  • @512TheWolf512
    @512TheWolf512 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    As far as i understand, a sound is a very narrow strait. Take Pudget Sound as an example

  • @Katniss218
    @Katniss218 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Kerbal Space Program orbital music! :D
    (I know it was taken from a 3rd-party website in both cases)

  • @mitchbarber4748
    @mitchbarber4748 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Inland from the Puget Sound, we also have a lot of sloughs. I assume these are like canals, being man made sections of rivers or creeks.

  • @Markle2k
    @Markle2k 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    San Francisco Bay is a ria. It's a river valley, a few rivers actually, that flooded when the glacial period came to a close and sea level rose. The Farallon Islands 20 miles offshore were actually hills on the old shoreline. The water only gets to about 60-80 feet deep until you get to the islands.

  • @Theeduckie
    @Theeduckie 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    There’s also vernal pools. They are seasonal ponds (or smaller), bigger than puddles and less temporary.

  • @panchora99
    @panchora99 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i like this channel's videos

  • @danadnauseam
    @danadnauseam 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    The name Hood Canal is used for a natural channel between the Olympic Peninsula and Whidbey Island in Washington.

  • @caribaez5711
    @caribaez5711 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you 😊

  • @aellipsis
    @aellipsis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Where I grew up a creek/crick was the same as a brook.

  • @patrickdaly1161
    @patrickdaly1161 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Apart from size, a lake generally has water flowing in and out of it. While a pond is totally enclosed. The exception is an oxbow lake which is also enclosed but still has water seeping through soil upriver.