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No it doesnt. This is because a drainage basin and a watershed are exactly the same thing. They jus have two names! And this is the area surrounding a river and its tributaries where it overflows :) Hope this helps :)
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What is another name for a river basin?
Catchment/drainage basin.
What is the boundary of a drainage basin?
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
What is an the area of land in which water drains into a stream system?
drainage basin
A specific area in which the streams and rivers all drain runoff into a single body of water is called?
a drainage basin.
What is a watersheld?
Did you mean a watershed ? which is approximatively the synonym of drainage basin...
What land area supplies water to a river system?
The catchment is the correct answer. Commonly folk say 'watershed' but the watershed is the boundary (ridges etc) of the catchment.
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.
In a gcse geog paper would you label a dotted line around a river system 'watershed' or 'drainage basin'?
Watershed.
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.
Is the land area from witch a river and it's tributaries collect water?
Drainage basin :D Or watershed.
What is it called when an area of land from which a stream or river collects runoff?
A drainage basin/ watershed.
