What is the difference between a bay and a peninsula?
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A bay is a body of water.  Like, say, Hudson Bay\n\nA peninsula is a strip of land that extends into a body of water. It is "almost an island".  E.G. Baja in Mexico is a peninsula.
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The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. A coastline is properly, a line on a map indicating the disposition of a coast but the word is often used to refer to the coast itself. The adjective, coastal describes something as being on, near to or associated with a coast.\n\nCoast is a specific term, and is applied to that part of an island or continent that borders an ocean or its saltwater tributaries. A pelagic coast refers to a coast which fronts the open ocean, as opposed to a more sheltered coast in a gulf or bay. A shore on the other hand, can refer to parts of the land which adjoin any large body of water, including oceans (sea shore) and lakes (lake shore). Similarly, the somewhat related term bank refers to the land alongside or sloping down to a river (river bank) or of a body of water smaller than a lake. Bank is also used in some parts of the world to refer to an artificial ridge of earth intended to retain the water of a river or pond. In other places this may be called a levee.\n\nWhile many scientific experts might agree on a common definition of the term "coast", the delineation of the inland extents of a coast differ according to jurisdiction, with many scientific and government authorities in various countries differing for economic and social policy reasons. This is usually because defining lands as part of a coast may be seen to have environmental implications which would prevent development or attach regulations to their use.
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Check the yellow pages.\n\nBy the way, are you so parochial that you suppose there is only one "bay area" in the world?
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A bar is a linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water. Bars tend to be long and narrow (linear) and develop where a current (or waves) promote deposition of granular material, resulting in localized shallowing (shoaling) of the water.\n\nA spit is a deposition landform found off coasts.
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Islands are pretty much the peaks of underwater mountains.  They stay above water because they've got more land underwater sitting on the ocean floor.
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A mollusks is an invertabrate that lives in the sea,\nThats all I know I would know more but I left my science book at hom. Im in 5th gr.
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It varies from point to point. Bay of Bengal has a long coastline.
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Hong Kong is a region composed of many small islands and a peninsula.  So I suppose the short answer to your question is, "a lot."\n\nNote that people sometimes refer to the island of Hong Kong when they say "Hong Kong," rather than the whole region.  I suggest looking at the linked map.
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island = land completely surrounded by water\nwaves = water\nany more silly questions?
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A headland is an area of land adjacent to water on three sides. A bay is the reverse, an area of water bordered by land on three sides. Large headlands may also be called peninsulas; long, narrow and high headlands promontories. When headlands dramatically affect the ocean currents they are often called capes. A bay generally occupies an area wider than a fjord but smaller than a sound or gulf, either of which may include one or more bays.\n\n\nA harbor or harbour (see spelling differences), or haven, is a place where ships may shelter from the weather or are stored. Harbors can be man-made or natural. A man-made harbor will have sea walls or breakwaters and may require dredging. A natural harbor is surrounded on most sides by land.\n\nHarbors and ports are often confused. A port is a man-made coastal or riverine facility where boats and ships can load and unload. It may consist of quays, wharfs, jetties, piers and slipways with cranes or ramps. A port may have magazine buildings or warehouses for storage of goods and a transport system, such as railway, road transport or pipeline transport facilities for relaying goods inland.\n\nDuring the D-Day operations of 1944, two artificial harbors (codenamed Mulberry) were built just off the invasion beaches.
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It depends: in the USA the west coast is colder than inland areas because the ocean temperature is relatively cold whereas the east coast is warmer than the inland areas because the gulf stream (a current that flows up the east coast from the warm Gulf of Mexico). So, it all depends upon the temperature of the water bordering the coastal area: for the west coast the ocean cools down the coastal area but on the east coast the ocean warms the coastal area. Obviously this all depends upon the time of year and the air temperature compared to the water temperature.
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Technically to be a peninsula, it has to be connected to the mainland by an isthmus. NJ probably doesnt fall in that category.
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an isthmus is the answer, a peninsula only sticks out, doesnt connect
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Beach:\nan area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake \nland on a beach; "the ship beached near the port" \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nA beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, cobble, or even shell along the shoreline of a body of water. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach\n\nthe zone of unconsolidated material that extends landward from the low water line to the coastline\npao.cnmoc.navy.mil/educate/neptune/quest/ports/terms.htm\n\nThe part of a coast that is washed by waves or tides, which cover it with sediments of various sizes and composition, such as sand or pebbles.\ncollege.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glossary/b.html\n\na narrow strip of land that rises gradually from an adjacent body of water, usually consisting of sand and/or small stones\nwww3.newberry.org/k12maps/glossary/\n\nthe shore between the high and low water mark, covered with sand or pebbles\nwww.msnucleus.org/membership/html/k-6/rc/dictionary/rcdict.html\n\nunconsolidated intertidal material.\ngmbis.marinebiodiversity.ca/BayOfFundy/glossA-D.html\n\nan accumulation of sand and gravel found at the landward margin of a sea or lake. The upper and lower limits approximate the water levels at highest and lowest tides.\nwww.texasep.org/html/lnd/lnd_7bch_defs.html\n\nan accumulation of loose sediment (usually sand or gravel) along the coast.\nwww.soest.hawaii.edu/SEAGRANT/bmpm/glossary.html\n\nthe sloping shore along a body of water that is washed by waves or tides and is usually covered by sand or gravel (coast, shore, strand).\nwww.charttiff.com/place_names.shtml\n\nThe accumulation of sand, gravel, or sediment located at the transition zone between land and water.\ngeography.about.com/library/weekly/aa061697.htm\n\na sandy or rocky sloping area between high and low tide\nwww.oceanadventure.org/mecst_out.html\n\narea of buildup of coastal sediments (in Australia a beach is most commonly regarded as being composed of sand) (P)\nwww.vnc.qld.edu.au/enviro/flinders/land-defns.htm\n\nthe temporary deposition of sand and shingle along the coastline. Without its beach a coast is vulnerable to erosion, eg the cliffs at Barton on Sea were easily eroded following the construction of a groyne updrift at Bournemouth.\nwww.geographyfieldwork.com/GeographyVocabularyGCSECoasts.htm\n\nThat portion of the shore between ordinary low and high water marks. Commonly used to describe any sandy area adjacent to a body of water.\nwww.massrelaw.org/glossary/b.htm\n\n\nCoast\nseashore: the shore of a sea or ocean \na slope down which sleds may coast; "when it snowed they made a coast on the golf course" \nthe area within view; "the coast is clear" \nslide: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast down the snowy slope" \nmove effortlessly; by force of gravity \nwordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn\n\nThe coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean. A coastline refers to a particular length of coast. The term coastal describes a location as being on or near a coast. \nen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coast\n\n\n\nThe area of dry land that borders on a body of water.\ncollege.hmco.com/geology/resources/geologylink/glossary/c.html\n\n\nthat geographic area west of the Cascade Mountains, as officially delineated by the Cascade Mountains Administrative Line through British Columbia from Washington state to Alaska, including the lower Fraser River area south of Hell's Gate (south of Boston Bar), taking in the Coquihalla, Silverhope, and Skagit River drainages lying east of the line, but excluding the portions of the Kalum Forest District and Cariboo Forest Region lying west of the line.\nwww.for.gov.bc.ca/hfd/library/documents/glossary/C.htm\n\n\nA strip of land of indefinite length and width that extends from the s
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eaton and the bay.................
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Zone near the coast.\nIt refers to the eco-system where the ocean meets the land.\nNot always a beach.
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Size. Lakes are bigger but there is no official \ndifference. It's arbitrary or subjective.