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What is the area of land that is drained by a river system?
Basin
What is the name for the land that is drained by the river system?
a watershed, also called a drainage basin, is an area drained by a river.
What do you call a region drained by a river river system or other body of water?
An area drained by a river or river system is called a drainage basin.
What is an area drained by a river?
A Basin
A river and its tributaries make up a?
A river system that operates inside a drainage basin. A drainage basin is the area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.
What is an area of land that is drained by a river?
basin
What does Basin mean?
an area drained by the river .
What is the entire area that is drained by a large river is called a?
river basin
What is our land drained by a river and it's branches river?
Land drained by a river is a watershed. This is an area of land that feeds all the water running under it and draining off of it into a body of water.
What is the entire area that is drained by a large river?
that is what is called a basin
What is the area of a land drained by a river?
The area of land drained by a river is called a "catchment area". It is so-called because is the the area that catches the precipitation (rainfall).Another term is "river basin", but this is less specific.(The geographical term, "catchment area", is often used to describe the area served by, say, a school or hospital).
What is the area called where rivers flood land?
A river basin is an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.
