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[–] AnthropomorphicCat 46 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] dylanTheDeveloper 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] GratefullyGodless 4 points 7 months ago

Settle down there, Jar Jar.

[–] Nastybutler 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This guide missed a steppe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

And a savannah

[–] littletoolshed 13 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I was hoping to see both Gulch and Gully!

[–] ganksy 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

And where's dale? For god's sake, what the heck is a dale?!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I CERTAINLY DONT SEE A HOLLER

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

How about creeks and streams? Ephemeral ponds? Hot springs?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

and moors? Glades?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

I want to move to this fictional place now!

[–] Nacktmull 12 points 7 months ago (2 children)

What distinguishes a bay from a sound? What is the difference between a channel and a strait?

[–] TastehWaffleZ 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

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 7 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Aedis 2 points 7 months ago

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 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] fidodo 11 points 7 months ago

Every open world game map

[–] CluckN 7 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] TechLich 5 points 7 months ago

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).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

Me too.

And many other people.

I'm not changing. 😁

[–] ganksy 3 points 7 months ago

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 2 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Difference between river and strait?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

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 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't leave us hanging. Are you a geologist?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

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

[–] samus12345 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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

[–] radicalautonomy 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

what differentiates a cape from a peninsula

[–] morphballganon 2 points 7 months ago

Or a sound from a bay

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

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

[–] Skanky 1 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

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.