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There are many different kinds of drainage basin on the surface of the earth.
Lurline Lemke
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∙ 9y agoOn a drainage basin surface water from melting snow, ice, or rain converges to a single point that is at a lower elevation. The lower elevation is usually the exit of the basin where the waters join a larger water body.
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∙ 6y agoit is a basin that drains
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What is the difference between drainage divide and drainage basin?
a drainage basin is where water from rain fall or snow melting drains downhill into a river or stream, or another kind of body of water.http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_basin a ocean basin is technically anywhere on earth that is covered by seawater. but according to the geologist an ocean basin is below sea level.http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_basin
What is it called when an area of land from which a stream or river collects runoff?
A drainage basin/ watershed.
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the construction of testable explanations and predictions about the natural world through the use of evidence.
What is the largest drainage drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US is?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin is the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the relationship between a stream and a drainage basin?
A stream discharges into a drainage basin. A drainage basin is a tract of land drained by a river and its tributaries
What is the land area from which a stream gets water?
Drainage Basin
What are three bodies of fresh water that are above the ground?
the Mississippi river drainage basin, Colorado river drainage basin, and the Columbia river drainage basin
What is the boundary of a drainage basin called?
The boundary of the drainage basin is called a drainage divide. Sometimes drainage basin is called catchment area referring to an area where water flows into a stream or a number of streams. In North America drainage basin is also called Watershed.
What is another name for a drainage basins?
Drainage basin is also called catchment, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, and water basin. It is an area of land. All water that falls on that land flows into one river.
What determines which drainage basin a person live in?
A drainage basin is simply an area between two ridges from which water drains as a stream or river. A small creek has its own drainage basin. The drainage basin of the Mississippi River includes everything between the Rocky Mountains and the Adirondacks.
What is the area of drainage basin of Indus?
River Indus's drainage basin has an area of 1165000 square kilometers.
Inland drainage system in Australia?
The Lake Eyre Basin is the world's largest inland drainage basin.
What is the boundary of a drainage basin?
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
