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A drainage basin is the area of land where surface water is drained downhill into a body of water. A divide is?
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Explain the difference between a drainage basin and a drainage divide?
A drainage basin is an extent or area of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. A drainage divide is the line separating neighbouring drainage basins (catchments).
What is the high ground between two drainage basins called?
a drainage divide
Is there a drainage divide in Arizona?
yes
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
How are a divide and a drainage basin related?
they have land
What is the french word for 'watershed'?
watershed (English definitions are from Dictionary.com)1. Chiefly British . the ridge or crest line dividing two drainage areas; water parting; divide. > ligne de partage des eaux2. the region or area drained by a river, stream, etc.; drainage area. > bassin versant
What is the high ground between drainage basins called?
Because, drainage basins are high elevated
What is Continental drainage?
The changing lithosphere affects the drainage patterns of the continents. The Continental Divide marks the division whereby the rivers drain west and east from the divide. Continental drainage systems were also created and are affected by the movement of ice.
What is the difference between a watershed and a continental divide?
That the watershed is drained and a divide are separated by each other.
What is the imaginary line called which separates one drainage basin?
A divide.
What is the technical word for the Continental Divide?
It is a hydrological divide or drainage divide. Some also call it a ridgeline, watershed or water parting.
A divide as it relates to earth is?
A DIVIDE is A divide is the elevated boundary between areas that are drained by different river systems. (or words to that effect!)
