what’s the difference between a swamp, lagoon, pond, and lake?
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Ponds and lakes or bodies of water that are typically not flowing but there’s no universal standard on naming. Where I am ponds are small and artificially made by dams or excavation, and lakes are naturally occurring and generally larger. Lots of overlap in terms though.
[Swamps are wetlands along with bogs, marshes, and fens.](http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=4449#:~:text=Swamps%20are%20forested%2C%20marshes%20are,The%20types%20can%20overlap) Typically swamps are dominated by trees, marshes are dominated by plants, bogs are dominated by mosses and are poorly oxygenated and generally acidic so things don’t decompose in them and they accumulate peat. Fens are neutral or alkaline.
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