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[–] AnthropomorphicCat@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] Iceman@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] GratefullyGodless@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Settle down there, Jar Jar.

[–] Nastybutler@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This guide missed a steppe

[–] feebl@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

And a savannah

[–] littletoolshed@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was hoping to see both Gulch and Gully!

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (4 children)

And where's dale? For god's sake, what the heck is a dale?!

[–] prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago

I CERTAINLY DONT SEE A HOLLER

[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

How about creeks and streams? Ephemeral ponds? Hot springs?

[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

and moors? Glades?

[–] JulesTheModest@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 years ago

I want to move to this fictional place now!

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Every open world game map

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (5 children)

How do I actually pronounce archipelago?

I see it in text but I've never heard a human say it out loud.

Is it soft like Archie, or hard like arch? Is "Lago" like Lago or Lego?

[–] NakariLexfortaine@lemm.ee 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ar-keh-pell-ah-go is how I've always heard it.

[–] TechLich@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

It's a hard K sound and the i and a are "uh" (ə) sounds. Like "Ark uh pel uh go" (at least in my accent).

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Okay... I've been pronouncing it wrong... like arki-pel-Ah-go

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee -1 points 2 years ago

Me too.

And many other people.

I'm not changing. 😁

[–] ganksy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I've always pronounced it "ark-e-pell-ago" but I think "ar hie-pell-ago" is equally correct. The ego/ago thing is the same.

[–] SeabassDan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'll keep saying ar-chih-puh-LAH-go because I don't actually plan on every saying it out loud to anyone

[–] CluckN@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

God my teacher used this image to teach us all the geography terms. Instant memories of certain sections being blown up to the point where you could count the pixels.

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Such a throwback, my dad had this poster in the hall at little kid height and i remember sitting and looking at it and wanting to be a geologist

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't leave us hanging. Are you a geologist?

[–] Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago

no, I majored in math and now I'm a software engineer xD

[–] SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Difference between river and strait?

[–] nailbar@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 years ago

Strait is connecting two large bodies of water while a river is what drains a land mass. Something like that.

[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The lack of estuary is why places like the San Francisco Bay are misnamed.

[–] radicalautonomy@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I had this exact poster up in my classroom back when I taught 4th grade.

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

what differentiates a cape from a peninsula

[–] morphballganon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Or a sound from a bay

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's the difference between a plateau and a mesa?

[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

Apparently it's to do with what they're made of. A geologist can and should correct me, but I think mesas are made of flat layers of different rocks, and plateus are made of a single solid material

[–] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago

i think mesa is fully surrounded by lower land but plateau just has to be elevated and flat, could be connected to other highlands.

[–] Squirrel@thelemmy.club 1 points 2 years ago

That butte does not match the buttes I've seen in real life. Then again, I've only seen the ones near my parents, in Oregon.

[–] Skanky@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

So, being from the south, where is "bluff" and "creek"?

[–] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

What distinguishes a bay from a sound? What is the difference between a channel and a strait?