A wide opening or bend in the land, into which the water flows, is usually called a bay.
Sometimes, when the opening in the bend is long and narrow, it is called a gulf.
| PICTURE OF A STRAIT. |
| MAP OF A STRAIT. |
On the next page is shown a narrow strip of water joining two larger bodies of water. The name given to this narrow passage is strait, a word meaning narrow.
As an isthmus connects two bodies of land, so a strait connects two bodies of water.
After a rain make little lakes, rivers, bays, etc. Perhaps you may find some already made.
See whether you can find in the magazines and books at home pictures of gulfs, bays, peninsulas, etc.
Write the following: A peninsula is land almost surrounded by water.
An isthmus is a neck of land joining two larger bodies of land.