I agree, also, I think that #5 is a little vague because technically any landmass can be "near" water. I tried "continent", "island", and "peninsula" for that. Also, streams and creeks are basically the same thing as rivers. "Pond" should be acceptable for "lake" too. It would also be helpful if you numbered the hints, so you could go to the one labeled number 5 or something instead of counting the ones to see the hint you were relating to beforehand. Good quiz.
Yes, this is not a good clue because it isn't specific enough, and that makes it an unfair clue. The answer to the clue as it stands could be continent, or island, even land (although that is in the clue). Perhaps "the part of land adjoining the sea" would be better. Just a suggestion llama boy...
Another one here voting for canal and channel. There is no caveat that it has to be a natural landform and no reason to expect the clue would have to say "manmade". Besides, there are natural canals - Hood Canal, Casiquiare canal, etc. and one of the definitions of canal in Merriam-Webster is simply, "channel, watercourse". Definitions of channel include deep or wide strait, and channel and canal come from the same root word. Your Honor, the defense rests.
Great quiz! Took me a while to figure out how to spell "strait"--I kept putting a "gh" in it and being puzzled that it wasn't accepted--but I eventually got it.
This quiz was fun enough that you should consider doing a sequel, with all the landforms you left out of this first one. Cave, tundra, fjord, isthmus, etc.
I went for butte, and it wasn't accepted, to my surprise. A butte is the same as a mesa, only smaller, so I think the reason why it isn't allowed is just an oversight.
For 5, not all coast is a beach. There are cliffs along many coasts that lead straight to the water, however, all beaches are coasts. 21/22. Missed sinkhole.
This was fun, but like Zefyrinus said, pretty ambiguous. Jungle should count for forest, gorge has been mentioned, a polder is also a large (very) flat area of land.Other than that, big fun!
Usually a mesa is larger and often has standing water on top. I think basically a butte is what is left when most of a mesa erodes away. (Think of the landforms in Monument Valley.) Even though I got the correct answer, I agree the definition could be either one.
This quiz was fun enough that you should consider doing a sequel, with all the landforms you left out of this first one. Cave, tundra, fjord, isthmus, etc.