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A boundary of watershed is defined by watershed divide. This is the ridge of uppermost elevation surrounding a stream or network of stream. Rainwaters that will fall outside of the boundary will enter different watershed and will flow to different bodies of water.
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What name is applied to the outside boundaries of a watershed?
The term applied to the outside boundaries of a watershed is "MEANDER."
How can you tell where geographical boundaries of a watershed are?
Look on the map of drainage divides. USGS
How can you tell where the geographical boundaries of a watershed are?
Look on the map of drainage divides. USGS
What determines the boundary of a watershed?
elevation features like hills, mountains, and ridges
What is the boundary of a drainage basin?
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
What geographical features create natural boundaries for water to flow toward one ocean or another?
Watershed.
What best describes a watershed?
It is an area of land that is drained by a river. It is also a ridge or elevated area of land that divides two areas of land that are drained by two river systems.
What has the author Pierre Richard T Gravelle written?
Pierre Richard T. Gravelle has written: 'Automatic delineation of watershed boundaries using IDRISI'
What is a nested watershed?
A nested watershed is simply a watershed within a watershed. An example might be the Platte River watershed which is a nested watershed within the Missouri River watershed which in turn is nested within the Mississippi River watershed.
What watershed do you live on?
what watershed does everyone live on
What are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basins are called what?
The term "watershed" is sometimes used, though this is a little ambiguous, since some people use it in a way that's essentially synonymous with "drainage basin", and some people use it for the boundaries between drainage basins.
Can humans change a watershed?
You can change a watershed by polluting it
