Bodies of Water

•A stream is a body of
water with a current,
confined within a bed and
stream banks. It moves to
a lower level in a channel
on land
Stream
Bodies of Water
• A river is a natural watercourse
usually freshwater, flowing
towards an ocean, a lake, or sea,
or another river. In few cases, a
river simply flows into the ground
or dries up completely before
reaching another body of water.
River
Bodies of Water
•A hot spring is produced by
the emergence of
geothermally heated
groundwater from the Earth’s
crust.
Hot Spring
Bodies of Water
•A lake is body of relatively still
water of considerable size,
localized in a basin, that is
surrounded by land apart from
a river, stream, or other form
of moving water that serves to
feed or drain.
Lake
Bodies of Water
•Laguna de Bay, the largest
lake in the Philippines located
east of Metro Manila between
the provinces of Laguna to the
south and Rizal to the north.
Bodies of Water
• A pond is a small lake, most
often in a natural depression.
Like a stream, the word lake is
quite a generic term - it refers to
any accumulation of water
surrounded by land - although it
is often of a considerable size.
Pond
Lake and Pond
Bodies of Water
• A sea is a large body of saline
water that may be connected
with an ocean or may be a large
saline lake that lacks a natural
outlet.
• An example is the Camotes Sea, a
small sea between the Eastern
Visayas and the Central Visayas
Sea
Bodies of Water
• Oceans are the ultimate bodies
of water and refers to the five
oceans - Atlantic, Pacific, Arctic,
Indian, and. Southern.
Ocean
Bodies of Water
• Coves are the smallest
indentations of land by a lake,
sea, or ocean.

• A bay is larger than a cove and can

refer to any wide indentation of the
land.
Coves
Bay
Bodies of Water
• Larger than a bay is a gulf which
is usually a deep cut of the land
• Any lake or pond directly connected
to a larger body of water can be
called a lagoon and a channel
explains a narrow sea between two
land masses.
Gulf
Lagoon
Channel