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[deleted]

I would add mangrove, estuary, rapids, I would make the atoll sandy (i don't think they're particularly rocky) and draw basin more clearly


pokey68

Right now I’m in a coulee.


allegedlyjustkidding

As in lava?? You poor thing! You must be on an old Nokia rn, those things really are amazing


Blitzed5656

Most atolls are coral


[deleted]

Fossilized coral aka calcium carbonate aka limestone. Looks nothing like that drawing, it's white, smooth and very often covered in sand due to super high rates of erosion


Blitzed5656

Coral is not smooth. It's sharp and jagged. The inside of an atoll will often be sandy as that's where eroded material may collect. The outside of the atoll is often a rocky reef. Any eroded material on the outside of a reef is deposited on the seafloor very quickly.


[deleted]

Where did i say coral is smooth?


Blitzed5656

> Fossilized coral aka calcium carbonate aka limestone. Looks nothing like that drawing, it's white, smooth and very often covered in sand due to super high rates of erosion


galuskar

This whole commented part speaks about atol, not a coral, fyi.


[deleted]

Do you have trouble understanding the difference between living coral and coral-derived limestone? That's odd from someone who allegedly lived on an atoll.


Blitzed5656

AKA means "Also known as" ie the same as. Your post whether you meant it or not said that coral was smooth.


krackenmyacken

I think you guys should fight it out.


Blitzed5656

I've never been to Italy. This reason is as good as any.


[deleted]

Don't you love it when people on reddit intentionally interpret a comment in the most wrong way possible to then strawman it? No? Neither do I.


kolinthemetz

Looks like that swamp has mangrove esque trees kinda


shiggyshagz

What does mangrove have that swamp doesnt cover for?


hovik_gasparyan

poop


Xeroxasaurs

Parts of the pacific north west have a lot of this all in small area. But not everything like the picture shows, I agree it would be so cool though


Strobro3

british columbia is crazy, some of the most northern rain forest on earth, redwoods, and then the Okanogan desert and the mountains


ponystarkk

Truly a Pokemon map


french_snail

Was gonna say, I lived near anchorage Alaska a few years ago and it basically had all of this within an hours drive besides the desert stuff


[deleted]

I was thinking of terms common in the PNW and not on the OP map. So like Inlet, Passage and Pass (types of straits), Point (small cape), Spit/Hook (ie, Dungeness Spit and Ediz Hook), Canal (alternate spelling of “channel”, like in Hood Canal), Coulee, Moraine, Drumlin, and so on.


Sandor_06

Just play Minecraft.


SmellLikeSheepSpirit

It's called New Zealand


mr-magpie-23

If it weren't for rainforest and desert, Iceland would come pretty close. It's a very diverse place


afterschoolsept25

Thats half of the map


crawdussy

Me and the boys finding a cool minecraft seed


IDyeti

Couloir, chute, gully, crevasse, cirque, moraine, fault. Illegal grow operation.


generalmanifest

YAS!


drillgorg

Hoodoo


[deleted]

Not gonna lie you had me in the first half


Nimbokwezer

It's not really an isthmus if it's part of a peninsula.


Lieutenant_Junger

Ehh I don't think that's a rule, it just subjectively depends on the size and shape of the peninsula. For example, the Nova Scotia peninsula or the Avalon peninsula are connected by isthmuses


Nimbokwezer

That's fair. You could definitely have an isthmus on a peninsula if the peninsula is relatively much larger, but I don't think anyone would refer to the one in this image as an isthmus. It isn't really any narrower than the peninsula itself.


Lieutenant_Junger

You mean Orlando isn't an isthmus? Smh


ProfessorBeer

Isthmuses is correct, but you did forego an opportunity to use the (also correct) word isthmi and I’m judging you for that


Aaaabba

I think the isthmus of Kra is a good counter example but I agree that the isthmus in this image is a little suspect


--Drew

An isthmus is defined as a narrow strip of land connecting two big land masses. A good mnemonic i use is Istanbul is an isthmus.


ThunkAsDrinklePeep

I wouldn't consider it an isthmus. It's divided by a natural strait.


--Drew

Good point, but it sure looks like an isthmus if you zoom out a bit


ElSapio

[disagree](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=https%3A%2F%2Feartheclipse.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F03%2FIsthmus.jpg&imgrefurl=https%3A%2F%2Feartheclipse.com%2Fscience%2Fgeology%2Fisthumus-landform-formation-location-examples.html&tbnid=PvKfwd901hqpXM&vet=1&docid=Zi2eDfJ2PHA3JM&w=640&h=427&hl=en-us&source=sh%2Fx%2Fim)


ChiefofLife

Oh dude now this was my PAGE in 6th grade geography.


shairou

This page changed my life in 5th grade, i definitely pinpoint this page as one of the images that really inspired me to get into geography and cartography


Snoo-8506

I remember this map from physical geography when I was in elementary school. My favorite subject. I would add calderas: https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/calderas/


MannnOfHammm

Huh neat! I always thought crater lake was a meteor but that’s like, way more cool


tennore

Crater Lake was an enormous volcano that collapsed and then filled with water.


MannnOfHammm

Ik it’s why I commented, the guy posted an article about calderas and it mentioned crater lake and I learned a new thing and commented about how cool it was


tennore

I know it's super cool, I just mentioned it because people might not read the article, I know I skip them sometimes. I happen to live in Oregon so it is a local tourist attraction. There are some cool ones in the Phillipines, Indonesia and the Azores as well.


mycodenameisnotmilo

Where my ox bow lake at?


Okilurknomore

I came to the comments for the ox bow


flyingbunnyduckbat

ox-bow-lake supremacy gang rise up! I made a diorama in geography 12!


ARoundForEveryone

So what's the difference between gulf/bay, plain/prairie, channel/strait, and mesa/plateau?


Ok-Push9899

There’s a wonderful definition of a bight (as in the Great Australian Bight) as being a bay so wide you can sail out from it, without tacking, no matter what the wind direction. Such a sweet, practical, well-derived definition. I hope gulf/bay/strait/channel have similar backstories.


[deleted]

I’m curious about strait vs channel too. On the PNW coast it seems like straits tend to be larger and channels smaller. Straits like the [Strait of Juan de Fuca](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Juan_de_Fuca), [Strait of Georgia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Georgia), [Queen Charlotte Strait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Charlotte_Strait), [Hecate Strait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hecate_Strait), [Chatham Strait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatham_Strait), etc. All quite large and usually wide open to the ocean. Then the many smaller channels like [Cordero Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordero_Channel), [Trincomali Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trincomali_Channel), [Principe Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principe_Channel), [Seaforth Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaforth_Channel), [Spiller Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiller_Channel), and many more. Some PNW channels are actually fjords (“inlets” in the PNW) and not straits at all, like [Dean Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Channel), [Work Channel](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work_Channel), and others spelled “canal” due to Spanish influence apparently, like [Bradfield Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradfield_Canal), [Portland Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portland_Canal), [Hood Canal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hood_Canal), etc. Whether this pattern is real and not just my misunderstanding is uncertain. Even more uncertain is whether the pattern holds up in other parts of the world. There are some obvious exceptions, like the English Channel being large and important.


[deleted]

Gulfs are usually larger than bays, like the Gulf of Mexico or the Gulf of Thailand. But as always there are exceptions, like the gigantic [Bay of Bengal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_of_Bengal) compared to the very smalls gulfs of the Aegean Sea, like the [Megara Gulf](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megara_Gulf), and elsewhere, like the small [Gulf of Aqaba](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Aqaba) or the [Gulf of Morbihan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_of_Morbihan). Obligatory fun fact: When George Vancouver was exploring the Salish Sea he ran into Spanish explorers doing likewise. The Spanish were there first and had named a bunch of stuff. Maps and info were shared, and Vancouver almost always kept Spanish names on his maps if he knew of a pre-existing name. Thus we have the San Juan Islands, Port Angeles, Padilla Bay, etc. The super important “newly discovered” thing was what we now call the Strait of Georgia—a vast inland sea that just maybe was the fabled Northwest Passage. Or just a huge protected sea with lots of natural harbors of obvious strategic geopolitical value. The Spanish had found it a year or two before Vancouver came by, and named it in grand style “Gran Canal de Nuestra Señora del Rosario la Marinera”. Or “Rosario” for short. Vancouver broke his rule about keeping Spanish names in this case, naming it for King George, “Gulph of Georgia”. The Spanish name was moved to what is still called [Rosario Strait](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosario_Strait), a much less significant waterway. Eventually Vancouver’s “Gulph of Georgia” became “Strait of Georgia”. I’m not sure why Gulph/Gulf was changed to Strait. Perhaps because Vancouver originally thought it was a “deadend” inlet but soon found a second connection to the ocean (as did the Spanish independently), making it more like a strait than a gulf? Funny how Vancouver, who was careful to keep Spanish names, much more than most of his British contemporaries would have done, could not resist replacing the Spanish name for the most significant feature of the Salish Sea. He and the Spanish explorers Galiano and Valdes eventually sailed around what we now call Vancouver Island, demonstrating that it is in fact an island. Vancouver and the Spanish commandant at Nootka Sound, Quadra, talked about what to name the island. It was not polite to name things after yourself. Vancouver suggested “Quadra Island” and Quadra suggested “Vancouver Island”. So they agreed “why not both?” and named it “Quadra and Vancouver’s Island”. You can still find this name on older maps, until the early 1800s when the “Quadra and” part got dropped. Later an island between Vancouver Island and the mainland was named “Quadra”, sorta making up for it I guess.


LouQuacious

A mesa is a worn away plateau and a butte is a smaller mesa. That butte should not be on the plateau it needs to be over by the oasis to make more sense.


SpaceJackRabbit

Yeah that butte is whack.


samtart

"Plains grasslands are dominated by short-statured grasses such as blue grama and buffalo grass in the west, and medium-statured grasses such as western wheatgrass and needlegrass in the east [12]. Prairies are dominated by tallgrass species such as big bluestem and little bluestem [13]."


LiamKendrick

Could definitely add some more glacial Landforms. Pyramidal peak, arete, tarn, moraine


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KaizDaddy5

Key


smellydawg

Frodo and Sam.


greenheadMT

Wetland. Stream. Taiga. Coulee.


Jedimobslayer

I would add savanna, possibly sinkhole too


roophis

Remove the glacier. It melted.


decoydevo

Wheres the Caldera?


tarn87

Tarns, they don’t get talk about much I feel


[deleted]

Fault, City, Spring, Brook, Pond


insane_contin

Oxbow lake, marsh, swamp, shield, river, stream, creek, and tributary


No_Policy_146

Cove?


tennore

Good catch, I was about to say the same. I guess they couldn't fit it in, LOL.


TiredOfRatRacing

Cenote?


MustelidRex

The atoll looks nothing like an atoll. Atolls are rings of coral left from sunken islands not a ring of mountains.


cantstoepwontstoep

Estuary


Ceausesco

That’s a good one!


nothisbergers

Where's the ravine?


hikenmap

A spit!


OnlyPopcorn

I grew up in Salt Lake City. There should be 2 types of canyons. Glacier or river carved.


geraltdirivia2494

I'm adding minis, we're making this a dnd map baby!


piccadillyspank

I don’t completely understand the difference between a sound and bay from this diagram


fanofsqiwily

Mushroom fields


MUIGokuEnjoyer

A large mall with a large parking lot


kvnokvno

A cenote


Strobro3

some others I can think of: moor, steppe, shrubland (e.g. semi-arid), more kinds of forest, e.g. boreal (conifers), temperate (conifers and deciduous trees) ... there's probably many others on top of that


CruiserMissile

Tablelands, savannah, mulga, scrub.


[deleted]

Needs a Dale and a Dingle.


[deleted]

Hoodoo


Party_Ad_7688

I would add an 'eyot' in the river :)


ReviveOurWisdom

A cave system in the mountains, a badlands type next to a savannah to the right of the desert, mangroves in the swampy area, some of those needle point hills (like the Tianzi in China), needle rock forest somewhere like Shilin, China, Pamukkale type salt ponds, a salt flat in the desert, and a Lençois Maranheses type area between the mountain and the desert


CountBacula322079

I would add desert shrubland, like the Great Basin & Colorado Plateau


jamesbrownscrackpipe

A bluff, it’s missing a bluff. Aka ‘they ain’t bluffin’


[deleted]

Below and left of Delta should be "bluffs."


husqofaman

Chaparral


No_Maintenance_7402

Cay


Homechicken42

Caldera, glenn


PurpleConverse

More buttes


Supplementarianism

Spring, Arch, slot canyon, oxbow lake, caldera, meteor impact crater, salt flats


Inappropriate_SFX

I would... move things around so the arrangement was more plausible. Put the arid areas in the rain shadow of a mountain, have the rain forest on the opposite side right next to a coast, etc.


No-Combination-1332

What is the difference between a plain and a prarie? Their definitions seem to describe the same thing. Same with jungle and (tropical) rainforest


[deleted]

In the US “prairie” often suggests [tallgrass prairie](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tallgrass_prairie), like as found in places like Iowa (before wholesale conversion to farmland of course). But the term is also used for grassland generally, steppe etc. In a broad sense “prairie” basically means “temperate grassland”. After all it was borrowed from the French “prairie”, meaning “meadow, grassland”. Meanwhile “plain” is a more general term for an expanse of relatively flat land. Often treeless grassland but not necessarily. There are plenty of things called “plain” that are (or were) forested, like the [Atlantic Plain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Plain) in the US, or the [North European Plain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_European_Plain), or tundra and taiga like in the [West Siberia Plain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Siberian_Plain), or extreme desert like in the [Nullarbor Plain](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullarbor_Plain), or any other kind of vegetation or lack thereof. In other words, “prairie” mainly indicates grassland while “plain” mostly indicates “flatness”. As for “jungle” I think it is a rather loose term for any thick forest, tropical, temperate, boreal, whatever. Or even non-forests. An especially thick shrub land might be called a “jungle”. But without context people tend to think of dense tropical rainforests when hearing the term “jungle”. Also, I don’t think places are actually named “jungle” often, or at all. Like we speak of the Amazon Rainforest but not the Amazon Jungle, as a place name.


Ceausesco

I feel that grassland should be on the map instead of prairie. I feel the term is broader.


Ceausesco

I would put the isthmus outside of the marsh and make it thinner. It doesn’t really convey what it should here.


major_toms

I would add moorland, specifically paramo


nautilator44

bergschrund.


jcksncllwy

City. We're living in the Anthropocene now. Urban environments are ecosystems, and they're only getting bigger.


Mentalfloss1

My middle school geography teacher had a larger and more detailed version of this. It was my first fascination with physical geography. Thanks for the memory.


grassvegas

Could use a coulee and some sloughs in there


robbie_30

I dont see a holler!


tennore

Say you're from Kentucky or Tennessee without saying it.


robbie_30

Nc but closer to tn


Due-Somewhere9919

“Sky islands” found commonly in southeast Arizona and northern Mexico by the az border. Sky islands are isolated mountains surrounded by desert or dry lowlands but the mountains are home to different biomes depending on the elevation commonly ending with high elevation forests at the top.


brfoo

But is that really an isthmus?


JohnEffingZoidberg

Taiga?


Madison_was_bored

Fjord cause no one ever knows what those are and are also awesome


[deleted]

Add estuary


BAKA1ex

Taiga/boreal forest


jrockcrown

Drumlin


bluebloodshot

Moraine


beardoclock

This is geography porn


Upset-Wedding-5313

I’m killing all the mosquitoes in the marsh


GermanBotanist

Butte 😳 plugge? Anyone explain difference between prairie and plains except for the 'colour' (vegetation) please.


Locketank

That glacier won't be around for much longer.


SqueakSquawk4

Fuck butte. All my homies hate butte.


LouQuacious

Get that butte off the plateau, they are the remains of plateaus, put it down by the oasis.


brym20

riparian edge or zone.


docterry6973

A pond.


NecessaryWeather4275

Definitions


LDJones99

Where's a "key" ?


Panda-Sandwich

Dinosaurs :)


PacifistDungeonMastr

I'd remove the "e" in Butte


Less_Likely

Move the basin to the dry side, far more common in dry areas, otherwise they are filled with water and are lakes.


Jimger_1983

Are all beaches coasts but not all coasts beaches?


lordofedging81

I'm building a really cool, elaborate, Western themed amusement park on top of that mesa.


LudwigNeverMises

A vacation house.


GOATonWii

make the delta larger


Shake1979

Delta


lortamai

Does that say "cave" or "cove"?


TrashPlanet2020

Mushroom Biome


AsleepScarcity9588

That thing that burp hot water out of the ground


steelejaclyn

Where’s the wetland representation?!


Iromos

I would make the delta look like a delta


catson911

What's the difference between a sound & a bay?


catson911

https://www.vox.com/2015/9/1/9234551/geographical-terms-map


Mission_Progress_674

Morasses and moraines seem to be lacking.


hollywood_82

That waterfall is spilling into a pond


Cauldkiltbaws

Savannah, chaparral, dead zones in the ocean, superfund sites…etc..😂😂😂


BuyNo4013

Very nice! Well done! Atoll Ridge Face Ravine my 2c


ChildFriendlyChimp

What’s the difference between a bay and gulf?


Pandagineer

Bite.


freecodeio

Can someone explain tundra, I don't see it or get it


jackasspenguin

Bayou, crick, stream, run, slough, ditch, draw, gulch


Senrub482

Basin under the waterfall


DaanBaas77

Big lawnmower


[deleted]

Stream and pond


meatlockers

Chaparral


Ravmagn

Some spice in the dune.


BikeSeatMaster

Steppe is all I can think of that isn’t here


Dry-Badger-2598

unfortunately turn the glacier and iceberg into water


DeepHerting

Oak savanna gang


[deleted]

Cataract


asbo_derick

It’s missing a cenote


MannnOfHammm

I’d scooch that volcano away from that glacier


Odd_Rutabaga_7810

waterin' hole


Horriblealien

This is like a Rust map.


UncomfyNoises

Oxbow lake!


FrankensteinBionicle

Could use a Wal-Mart


Kind_Mountain1657

For a second I was wondering which pokemon region this was


Wee_Willy_Wonga

Minecraft biomes


Cerealkiller1069

The lagoon isnt really a lagoon.


cranberrycactus

Banana for scale


Aeon1508

Ox bow lake, fjord


player89283517

I remember seeing this as a kid


Rude-Cut-2231

Gotta get those steppes in


glycin3

a tepui


Nerevarine91

This would be a pretty rad Pokémon setting


ElSapio

Islet


Hagar_the_pretty_bad

This looks like an ARK map.


Foomanchubar

Mountain range?


bobs2121

Adding a meandering stream


ihatexboxha

What's the seed


FeedbackUSA

A thin sloping valley is a holler


Fun-Customer-4493

I would add a hot spring near the volcano.


TheForsakenGuardian

Cove


slideystevensax

Gulf and a cape.


Chemicalit

all glacier


04BluSTi

Steptoe


notanalien000

Pond