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    A summary of the key bodies of water described in the document: 1. Coves are small, circular inlets along coastlines with narrow entrances that provide shelter. Bays are larger areas of water surrounded by land that block waves and reduce winds, making waters calmer. Creeks are smaller than coves and flow into the sea or larger bodies of water.

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    A summary of the key bodies of water described in the document: 1. Coves are small, circular inlets along coastlines with narrow entrances that provide shelter. Bays are larger areas of water surrounded by land that block waves and reduce winds, making waters calmer. Creeks are smaller than coves and flow into the sea or larger bodies of water.

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    A summary of the key bodies of water described in the document: 1. Coves are small, circular inlets along coastlines with narrow entrances that provide shelter. Bays are larger areas of water surrounded by land that block waves and reduce winds, making waters calmer. Creeks are smaller than coves and flow into the sea or larger bodies of water.

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    A summary of the key bodies of water described in the document: 1. Coves are small, circular inlets along coastlines with narrow entrances that provide shelter. Bays are larger areas of water surrounded by land that block waves and reduce winds, making waters calmer. Creeks are smaller than coves and flow into the sea or larger bodies of water.

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    Bodies of Water

    1. Cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. They usually have narrow, restricted entrances,
    are often circular.

    2.Bay is 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.val, and are often inside a larger bay.

    3.Creek, a small stream, creek (tidal), an inlet of the sea, narrower than a cove. 4.Marsh, or morass, is a type of wetland that is subject to frequent or continuous flood.[1]
    Typically the water is shallow and features grasses, rushes, reeds, typhus, sedges, other herbaceous plants, and moss

    5. Lake is a body of relatively still fresh or saLakes are inland and not part of the ocean and
    therefore are distinct from lagoons, and are larger and deeper than ponds.

    7. Gulf (geography), a large bay that is an arm of an ocean or sea


    localized in a basin, that is surrounded by land.

    water of considerable size,

    8. Brook [noun] a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);

    9.Sea (n.) The swell of the ocean or other body of water in a high wind; motion of the water's
    surface; also, a single wave; a billow; as, there was a high sea after the storm; the vessel shipped a sea

    10.Ocean (from Greek , "okeanos" Oceanus[1]) is a major body of saline water, and a
    principal component of the hydrosphere. Approximately 71% of the Earth's surface (~3.6108 km2 ) is covered by ocean, a continuous body of water that is customarily divided into several principal oceans and smaller seas.

    11. Estuary is a partly enclosed coastal body of water with one or more rivers or streams
    flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.[

    12. Stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks.
    depending on its locale or certain characteristics

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