What distinguishes a bay from a sound? What is the difference between a channel and a strait?
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.
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
Are you asking cause this picture seems to say they are the same thing or because you want to know? Haha
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.
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?
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).
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.
I'll keep saying ar-chih-puh-LAH-go because I don't actually plan on every saying it out loud to anyone
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
Strait is connecting two large bodies of water while a river is what drains a land mass. Something like that.
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.
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
i think mesa is fully surrounded by lower land but plateau just has to be elevated and flat, could be connected to other highlands.
