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Where do rivers flow when flowing west of the Continental divide?
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What in The rockies determines the direction that rivers flow?
Continental Divide
What separates rivers that flow east from those that flow west in North America?
The ross sea
What does continental divide means?
In the USA, the "continental divide" is the Rocky Mountains range of mountains. East of that, all rivers flow to the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico. West of the "Continental Divide", rivers flow west into the Pacific Ocean.
What does the continental divide mean?
The continental divide is an imaginary line that separates the direction in which water flows on the North American continent. Water on one side of the divide flows towards one ocean, while water on the other side flows towards a different ocean.
How can you use Continental Divide in a sentence?
The Continental Divide marks the high ridge in North America that separates waters flowing into the Pacific Ocean from those flowing into the Atlantic Ocean.
Does the Continental Divide allow rivers to flow only east or west?
Rivers Flow east to west :]
What extends from Alaska to New Mexico and divides rivers that flow east from rivers that flow west?
Continental divide.
What is continental divide follows the?
Which body of the water do rivers not flow in the east
In North America the line that separates rivers which flow to the Atlantic or Gulf of Mexico from those which flow to the Pacific is called the what?
It is known as the Continental Divide.
The Continental Divide sits along the rocky mountains and seperates the flow of rivers explain where the water drains on both sides of the divide?
the continental divides sit along the rocky mountains and seperates the flow of rivers
Is a high point or ridge that determines the direction that rivers flow?
It doesn't have to be a high ridge, but in any event, it is the 'Continental Divide'.
In North America rivers east of the Continental Divide flow towards what ocean?
In North America, rivers east of the Continental Divide flow into the ATLANTIC ocean.This was a Daily Geography question, wasn't it? ^^
