Strawberry ,

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 ,

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

Strawberry ,

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

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

starman2112 ,
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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 ,
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i think mesa is fully surrounded by lower land but plateau just has to be elevated and flat, could be connected to other highlands.

SnipingNinja ,
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Difference between river and strait?

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

Skanky ,

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

sqw ,
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what differentiates a cape from a peninsula

morphballganon ,

Or a sound from a bay

radicalautonomy ,

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

Squirrel ,
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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.

samus12345 ,
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The lack of estuary is why places like the San Francisco Bay are misnamed.

Nastybutler ,

This guide missed a steppe

feebl ,

And a savannah

CluckN ,

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.

fidodo ,

Every open world game map

dylanTheDeveloper ,
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Show more butte

Iceman ,

Mesa likey

GratefullyGodless ,
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Settle down there, Jar Jar.

JulesTheModest ,

I want to move to this fictional place now!

AnthropomorphicCat ,
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Obligatory XKCD

Lepsea ,

Obligatory XKCD new YouTube channel

wise_pancake ,

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 ,

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

ganksy ,
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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.

TechLich ,

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 ,

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/archipelago

Click the speaker icon to hear it

wise_pancake ,

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

BearOfaTime ,

Me too.

And many other people.

I'm not changing. 😁

SeabassDan ,

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

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