Which word does NOT belong with the others?

Concept: An "odd one out" classification question asks you to find the shared category among the given terms and pick the one item that does not belong to that category.

Application: Classify each term by what kind of geographic feature it names:

• Peninsula — a landform: a strip of land projecting into a body of water, surrounded by water on three sides.

• Island — a landform: a piece of land completely surrounded by water.

• Cape — a landform: a pointed piece of land that juts out into a body of water.

• Bay — a body of water: an inlet where the sea or a lake curves into the coastline.

Contrast: Peninsula, island, and cape are all pieces of land — they differ only in shape and how much water surrounds them — while bay is water, not land.

Since three of the four terms name landforms and only bay names a body of water, bay is the term that does not belong with the others.