A body of water or waterbody (often spelled water body) is any significant accumulation of water, usually covering the Earth

or another planet. The term body of watermost often refers to large accumulations of water, such as oceans, seas, and lakes, but it may also include smaller pools of water such as ponds, puddles or wetlands. Rivers,streams, canals, and other geographical features where water moves from one place to another are not always considered bodies of water, but there is no other term in English comprising "stationary" bodies of water as well as rivers and canals etc., and such moving bodies of water are included in this article. Some bodies of water are man-made (artificial), such as reservoirs or harbors, but most are naturally occurring geographical features. Bodies of water that are navigable are known aswaterways. Some bodies of water collect and move water, such as rivers and streams, and others primarily hold water, such as lakes and oceans. The term body of water can also refer to a reservoir of water held by a plant, technically known as a phytotelma.

Note that there are some geographical features involving water that are not bodies of water, for example waterfalls and geysers. **** A reservoir (etymology from French rservoir a "storehouse [1]) or an artificial lake is used to store water. Reservoirs may be created in river valleys by the construction of a dam or may be built by excavation in the ground or by conventional construction techniques such a brickwork or cast concrete. The term reservoir may also be used to describe underground reservoirs such as an oil or water well. **** Phytotelma (plural phytotelmata) is a term for water bodies held by plants. The water accumulated on these plants may serve as substratum for associated fauna, and often the fauna associated with phytotelmata is unique. A classification of phytotelma[1] recognizes five principal types: bromeliad tanks, pitcher plants, waterfilled tree hollows, bamboo internodes, and axil water (collected at the base of leaves, petals or bracts). **** A waterway is any navigable body of water. Waterways can include rivers, lakes, seas,oceans, and canals. In order for a waterway to be navigable, it must meet several criteria:

1. Stream - a body of water with a detectable current, confined within a bed and banks. Streams are important as conduits in the water cycle, instruments in groundwater recharge, and corridors for fish and wildlife migration. A stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, creek, or river. The smallest water channels are often called brooks but creeks are often larger than brooks but may either be permanent or intermittent. Creeks are also sometimes known as streams but the word stream is quite a generic term for any body of flowing water. Streams can be intermittent or permanent and can be on the surface of the earth, underground, or even within an ocean (such as the Gulf Stream). 2. Brooks and Creeks - a small stream. A brook is characterized by its shallowness and its bed being composed primarily of rocks. The source is a spring 3. River - a natural waterway usually formed by water derived from either precipitation or glacial meltwater, and flows from higher ground to lower ground. The river is a wide body of water that flows towards the sea. A river is a large stream that flows over land. It is often a perennial water body and usually flows in a specific channel, with a considerable volume of water. The world's shortest river, the D River, in Oregon, is only 120 feet long and connects Devil's Lake directly to the Pacific Ocean. Where is the world's shortest river located? USA. Located in Oregon, USA, the 'D' river runs between Devil's Lake and the Pacific Ocean and is only 120 feet long. What is the longest river in the world? Nile River. The Amazon is the longest river in South America, Mississippi in North America, and Yangtze in Asia. The Nile is the longest in Africa and the world. 4. Pond - a body of water smaller than a lake, especially those of man-made origin. A pond is a body of standing water, either natural or man-made, that is usually smaller than alake. A wide variety of man-made bodies of water are classified as ponds, including water gardens, water features and koi ponds; all designed for aesthetic ornamentation as landscape or architectural features, while fish ponds are designed for commercial fish breeding, and solar pondsdesigned to store thermal energy. 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, such as the English Channel. 5. Lake - a body of water or other liquid, but usually freshwater, of considerable size contained on a body of land. A lake is a body of water surrounded by land. A very large lake that contains salt water is known as a sea (except the Sea of Galilee, which is actually a freshwater lake). A lake is a body of relatively still fresh or salt water of considerable size, localized in a basin that is

surrounded by land. Lakes are inland and not part of the ocean, and are larger and deeper than ponds.[1][2] Lakes can be contrasted with rivers orstreams, which are usually flowing. However most lakes are fed and drained by rivers and streams. What is the largest lake in the world? Caspian Sea. The Caspian sea is actually considered a lake, not a sea, despite its name. It is called a sea because the Romans called it 'mare Caspium' (or salty lake). What is the deepest lake in the world? Lake Baikal. 6. Coves - is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. They usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often inside a larger bay. Small, narrow, sheltered bays, inlets,creeks, or recesses in a coast are often considered coves. Colloquially, the term can be used to describe a sheltered bay. 7. Bay - an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Bays are an area of water mostly surrounded by land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land blocking some waves and often reducing winds. Bays also exist as an inlet in a lake or pond. A large bay may be called a gulf, a sea, a sound, or a bight. A cove is a circular or oval coastal inlet with a narrow entrance; some coves may be referred to as bays. Bays and gulfs were significant in the history of human settlement because they can provide a safe place for fishing. Later they were important in the development of sea trade as the safe anchorage they encouraged their selection as ports. There are various ways that bays can be created. The largest bays have developed as a result ofcontinental drift. As the super-continent Gondwana broke up along curved and indented fault lines, the continents moved apart and the world's largest gulfs formed. These include the Gulf of Guinea, Persian Gulf, Gulf of Alaska, Gulf of Mexico and the Bay of Bengal which is the largest bay in the world.

8. Gulf - a part of a lake or ocean that extends so that it is surrounded by land on three sides, similar to, but larger than a bay. 9. Lagoon - a body of comparatively shallow salt or brackish water separated from the deeper sea by a shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reef, or similar feature. The enclosed body of water behind a barrier reef or barrier islands or enclosed by an atoll reef is called a lagoon.

Lagoons are relatively shallow bodies of water, mostly-enclosed, with an oceanic source, separated by a low-lying swatch of land, such as a spit or barrier island. Lagoons hare protected from the waves and currents of the ocean by barrier islands, sand bars or reefs. 10. Channel - the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks. See also stream bed and strait. A channel is the physical confine of a river, slough or ocean strait consisting of a bed and banks. A channel is a wide body of water found between islands. This has to be crossed into order to move from one island to another. 11. Whirlpool - A whirlpool is a swirling body of water usually produced by ocean tides. The vast majority of whirlpools are not very powerful. More powerful ones are more properly termed maelstroms. Vortex is the proper term for any whirlpool that has a downdraft. Very small whirlpools can easily be seen when a bath or a sink is draining, but these are produced in a very different manner from those in nature. Smaller whirlpools also appear at the base of many waterfalls. In the case of powerful waterfalls, like Niagara Falls, these whirlpools can be quite strong. The most powerful whirlpools are created in narrow shallow straits with fast flowing water. 12. Rapids - a fast moving part of a river. A rapid is a section of a river where the river bed has a relatively steep gradient causing an increase in water velocity and turbulence. A rapid is a hydrological feature between a run (a smoothly flowing part of a stream) and a cascade. A rapid is characterised by the river becoming shallower and having some rocks exposed above the flow surface. As flowing water splashes over and around the rocks, air bubbles become mixed in with it and portions of the surface acquire a white colour, forming what is called "whitewater". 13. Waterfalls A waterfall is a place where flowing water rapidly drops in elevation as it flows over a steep region or a cliff. Waterfalls are most commonly formed when a river is young. What is the highest waterfall in the world? Angel falls. Located in Venezuela, and is 3,281 feet (1,000 m) tall. **Pagsanjan Falls in Laguna, Maria Christina Falls in Mindanao Laguna de Bay is one of the largest lakes in Southeast Asia and the largest and one of the most vital inland bodies of water in the Philippines. Pre-Hispanic Filipinos called the lake, Lawa ng Bai (pronounced as ba-ee), meaning Mother Lake. With Spanish colonization, the name became Laguna de Bay or Lake of Bay. The largest lake is the Laguna de Bay, which encompasses two regions: Metro Manila and Region IV with an area of 922 km

What ocean contains the deepest trench on Earth? Pacific Ocean. The Pacific Ocean's deepest point is at the Marianas trench, 36,198 feet (11,033 m).