HABITATS

Bank - the land alongside a body of water.

Barren - dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.

Bluff - a type of broad, rounded cliff.

Bog - a wetland that accumulates peat as a deposit of dead plant materials – often mosses, typically sphagnum moss.

Bottomland - a location in the landscape that periodically floods (often within a 100-year floodplain), but standing water is usually absent during the growing season.

Canyon - a deep gorge, typically one with a river flowing through it.

Cliff - a steep rock face, especially at the edge of the sea.

Cove - a small type of bay or coastal inlet.

Depression - a landform sunken or depressed below the surrounding area.

Ditch - a small to moderate trench created to channel water.

Drainage canal - a channel along which drained water flows away.

Dune - a landform composed of wind- or water-driven sand.

Embankment - a wall or bank of earth or stone built to prevent a river flooding an area.

Fallow field - cultivated land that is intentionally left unplanted for a period, usually during a growing season, to allow the soil to recover and regenerate.

Fen - a type of peat-accumulating wetland fed by mineral-rich ground or surface water.

Fence row - the land occupied by a fence including the uncultivated area on each side.

Field - an area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences.

Flat - a relatively level surface of land within a region of greater relief, such as hills or mountains.

Flatwood - an ecosystem maintained by wildfire or prescribed fire and are dominated by longleaf pine (Pinus palustris), and slash pine (Pinus elliotii).

Floodplain - an area of land adjacent to a river.

Foredune - a part of a system of sand duns on the side nearest to the sea.

Forest - a large area covered chiefly with trees and undergrowth.

Glade - an open space in a forest.

Hill - a naturally raised area of land, not as high or craggy as a mountain.

Lake - a body of water that is surrounded by land.

Lawn - an area of short, mown grass in a yard, garden, or park.

Lowland - an area where the land is at, near, or below the level of the sea and where there are not usually mountains or large hills.

Marsh - an area of low-lying land which is flooded in wet seasons or at high tide, and typically remains waterlogged at all times.

Meadow - an open habitat or field, vegetated by grasses, herbs, and other non-woody plants.

Mudflat - coastal wetland that forms in intertidal areas where sediments have been deposited by tides or rivers.

Oxbow - a U-shaped bend in the course of a river.

Panne - a wetland consisting of a small depression, with or without standing water.

Pasture - land covered with grass and other low plants suitable for grazing animals, especially cattle or sheep.

Peatland - a type of wetland whose soils consist of organic matter from decaying plants, forming layers of peat.

Pond - a small, still, land-based body of water formed by pooling inside a depression, either naturally or artificially.

Prairie - a large open area of grassland.

Ravine - a deep, narrow gorge with steep sides.

Ridge - a long narrow hilltop, mountain range, or watershed.

River - a large natural stream of water flowing in a channel to the sea, a lake, or another such stream.

Riverbank - the ground at the edge of a river.

Riverbottom - lowest part of a river, where the water meets the ground below.

River valley - a valley formed by flowing water.

Sandbank - a deposit of sand forming a shallow area in the sea or a river.

Sandbar - a long, narrow sandbank, especially at the mouth of a river.

Savanna - a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions, with few trees.

Seep - a moist or wet place where water, usually groundwater, reaches the Earth's surface from an underground aquifer.

Shoreline - the line where a body of water touches the shore.

Slope - a surface of which one end or side is at a higher level than another; a rising or falling surface.

Slough - a wetland, usually a swamp or shallow lake, often a backwater to a larger body of water.

Spring - place where water moving underground finds an opening to the land surface and emerges, sometimes as just a trickle, maybe only after a rain, and sometimes in a continuous flow.

Stream - a continuous body of surface water flowing within the bed and banks of a channel.

Swale - a low or hollow place, especially a marshy depression between ridges.

Swamp - an area of low-lying, uncultivated ground where water collects.

Terrace - a step-like landform.

Thicket - a dense group of bushes or trees.

Upland - land or an area of land lying above the level where water flows or where flooding occurs.

Watershed - an area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water.

Wetland margin - areas beyond the wave action of a lake or extending away from the banks of a river.

Woodland - land covered with trees.