Philippine Bodies of Water

• The north is bordered by the Babuyan Channel.

• The west by the South China Sea
• The south by the Celebes Sea.
• The Philippines' eastern coast faces the Pacific Ocean.
• Inland lakes and rivers exist within the islands, formed through
time by different geologic activities
 WHAT IS A BAY?
• Is an area of water mostly surrounded by land,
generally have calmer water than the surrounding
sea
• a large body of water connected to an ocean or sea
formed by an inlet of land due to the surrounding
land blocking some waves and often reducing
winds.
 EXAMPLE OF BAY IN THE
PHILIPPINES

Subic Bay is a bay forming part of Luzon Sea on

the west coast of the island of Luzon in
Zambales, Philippines, about 100 kilometers
northwest of Manila Bay.
 WHAT IS A RIVER?

• Freshwater usually flowing toward an ocean, a sea, a lake or

another river
• A river is a natural watercourse usually freshwater, flowing
towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river.
• In few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up
completely before reaching another body of water.
 WHAT IS A WATERFALL?

• A waterfall is a place where water flows over a

vertical drop in the course of a stream or river.
• Waterfalls also occur where meltwater drops over
the edge of a tabular iceberg or ice shelf.
 WHAT IS A SEA?

• A sea is a large body of saline water that may be

connected with an ocean or may be a large saline
lake that lacks a natural outlet.
 WHAT IS A HOT SPRING?

• hot spring is a spring that is produced by

the emergence of geothermally heated
groundwater from the Earth's crust.
 WHAT IS A STRAIT?

• A strait is a narrow, typically

navigable waterway that connects
two larger, navigable bodies of
water.
 WHAT IS A STREAM?

• A stream is a body of water with a current,

confined within a bed and stream banks.
• A stream is a body of running water moving to
a lower level in a channel on land.
 WHAT IS A LAKE?
• A body of relatively still water of considerable
size, localized in a basin, that is surrounded by
land apart from a river, stream, or other form
of moving water that serves to feed or drain
the lake.