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Aeolian
 A processes, also spelled eolian, or æolian, pertain to wind activity in the study
of geology and weather, and specifically to the wind's ability to shape the surface
of the Earth (or other planets. Although water is a much more powerful eroding
force than wind, aeolian processes are important in arid environments such
as deserts.
Impact
 The striking of one thing against another; forceful contact; collision.
Coastal and ocean
 A very large expanse of sea, in particular, each of the main areas into which the
sea is divided geographically.
 A coastline or a seashore is the area where land meets the sea or ocean. A
precise line that can be called a coastline cannot be determined due to
the Coastline paradox.
 The term "coastal zone" is a region where interaction of the sea and land
processes occurs. Both the terms coast and coastal are often used to describe a
geographic location or region; for example, New Zealand's West Coast, or
the East and West Coasts of the United States.
Erosion
 Erosion is a natural process which is usually made by rock and soil being
loosened from the earth's surface at one location and moved to another.
 Erosion changes the landscape by wearing down mountains, filling in valleys,
and making rivers appear and disappear. It is usually a slow and gradual process
that occurs over thousands or millions of years. But erosion can be speeded up
by such human activities as farming and mining.
 Erosion begins with a process called weathering; in this process, environmental
factors break rock and soil into smaller pieces, and loosen them from the earth's
surface.
Fluvial
 The physical interaction of flowing water and the natural channels of rivers and
streams. Such processes play an essential and conspicuous role in the
denudation of land surfaces and the transport of rock detritus from higher to
lower levels.
Karst
  Terrain usually characterized by barren, rocky ground, caves, sinkholes,
underground rivers, and the absence of surface streams and lakes. It results
from the excavating effects of underground water on massive soluble limestone.
The term originally applied to the Karst, a limestone area on the
Dalmatian coast on the Adriatic Sea, but has been extended to mean all areas
with similar features.
Lacustrine
 of or relating to a lake.
 Living or growing in lakes, as various organisms.
 Formed at the bottom or along the shore of lakes, as geological strata.

Basin
 A drainage basin is an extent or an area of land where surface water from rain,
melting snow, or ice converges to a single point at a lower elevation, usually the
exit of the basin, where the waters join another water body, such as a river, lake,
reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea, or ocean.

Inlet

 An inlet is an indentation of a shoreline, usually long and narrow, such as a small

bay or arm that often leads to an enclosed body of water, such as a sound, bay,
lagoon, or marsh.

Lagoon moat

 Lagoons are shallow coastal bodies of water separated from the ocean by a
series of barrier islands which lie parallel to the shoreline. Inlets, either natural or
man-made, cut through barrier islands and permit tidal currents to transport water
into and out of the lagoons. Because lagoons are characteristically shallow,
they are strongly influenced by precipitation and evaporation, which results in
fluctuating water temperature and salinity.
 Lagoons can also be fragile ecosystems susceptible to pollution effects from
municipal, industrial and agricultural runoff.
 A moat is a deep, broad ditch, either dry or filled with water, that surrounds
a castle, fortification, building or town, historically to provide it with a preliminary
line of defense. In some places moats evolved into more extensive water
defenses, including natural or artificial lakes, dams and sluices. In later periods
the moat or water defenses may be largely ornamental. In older fortifications,
such as hillforts, they are usually referred to simply as ditches, although the
function is similar.

Pond
  A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or artificial, that is usually
smaller than a lake. They may arise naturally in floodplains as part of a river
system, or they may be somewhat isolated depressions (examples include vernal
pools and prairie potholes).
 Usually they contain shallow water with marsh and aquatic plants and animals. A
few animals also make their home in ponds, including both alligators and
beavers.

Sea

 The sea, the world ocean, or simply the ocean, is the connected body of salty
water that covers 70.8% of the Earth's surface. The sea moderates the Earth's
climate and has important roles in the water cycle, carbon cycle, and nitrogen
cycle.

Swamp

 A swamp is a wetland that is forested. Many swamps occur along large rivers
where they are critically dependent upon natural water level fluctuations. Other
swamps occur on the shores of large lakes. Some swamps have hammocks, or
dry-land protrusions, covered by aquatic vegetation, or vegetation that tolerates
periodic inundation.

Mountain and glacial

 A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its
own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds
its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries. Glaciers
slowly deform and flow due to stresses induced by their weight,
creating crevasses, seracs, and other distinguishing features. They also abrade
rock and debris from their substrate to create landforms such
as cirques and moraines. Glaciers form only on land and are distinct from the
much thinner sea and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water.

Volcanic

 is the phenomenon of eruption of molten rock (magma) onto the surface of the
Earth or a solid-surface planet or moon, where lava, pyroclastics
and volcanic gases erupt through a break in the surface called a vent.

Bodies of water
  The body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant
accumulation of water, generally on a planet's surface. The term most often
refers to oceans, seas, and lakes, but it includes smaller pools of water such
as ponds, wetlands, or more rarely,puddles. A body of water does not have to be
still or contained; Rivers, streams, canals, and other geographical features where
water moves from one place to another are also considered bodies of water.

Bayon

 A bayou is a Franco-English term for a body of water typically found in flat, low-
lying area, and can refer either to an extremely slow-moving stream or river(often
with a poorly defined shoreline), or to a marshy lake or wetland.
 The name "bayou" can also refer to a creek whose current reverses daily due to
tides and which contains brackish highly conducive to fish life and plankton.

Brook

 (Physical Geography) a natural freshwater stream smaller than a river

Canal Channel Lake

 Canals and navigations are human-made channels for water. In the vernacular
both are referred to as 'canals'. The main difference between them is that
navigation parallels a river and shares its drainage basin, while a canal cuts
across drainage divide.

Mediterranean Sea

 The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by

the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north
by Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the east
by the Levant. The sea is sometimes considered a part of the Atlantic Ocean,
although it is usually identified as a separate body of water.

Ocean

 is a body of saline water that composes much of a planet's hydrosphere.

On Earth, an ocean is one of the major conventional divisions of the World
Ocean, which occupies two-thirds of the planet's surface. These are, in
descending order by area, the Pacific, Atlantic, Indian, Southern, and
Arctic Oceans. The word sea is often used interchangeably with "ocean"
in American English but, strictly speaking, a sea is a body of saline water
(generally a division of the world ocean) partly or fully enclosed by land.
 Saline water covers approximately 72% of the planet's surface
River

 A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards

an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In some rare cases a river could flow
into the ground and dry up completely at the end of its course, without reaching
another body of water. Small rivers may be called by several other names,
including stream, creek, brook, rivulet, andrill. There are no official definitions for
generic terms, such as river, as applied to geographic features,[1] although in
some countries or communities a stream may be defined by its size.

Seep

 A seep is a moist or wet place where water, usually groundwater, reaches the
earth's surface from an underground aquifer.

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