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Explain the difference between a drainage basin and a drainage divide?
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∙ 7y ago
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).
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoDrainage basin drains into a lake or ocean.
Divide runs along high mountains.
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What is the difference detween divide and watershed?
There is actually no difference between a divide and a watershed. Both divides and watersheds are lines implemented to designate the separation between drainage basins.
What is the high ground between two drainage basins called?
a drainage divide
What is the high ground between drainage basins called?
Because, drainage basins are high elevated
What is the abstract noun of divide?
The noun divide is an abstract noun as a word for an important difference or disagreement between two people or groups.The noun divide is a concrete noun as a word for a dividing ridge of between drainage areas, a ridge of land.The abstract noun forms for the verb to divide are divider, division, and the gerund, dividing.
Is it true or false the high ground between two drainage basins is called a divide?
True.
Explain the difference between the numerator and the denominator of a fraction?
The numerator is what you are going divide with, while the denominator is what you are going to divide by. Example: You want to divide 2 by 4. So, 2/4. 2 is what you are going to divide with, so it will be the numerator. 4 is what you want to divide by, so it will be the denominator.
Is there a drainage divide in Arizona?
yes
What is the difference between divide and watershed?
i have on clue
What is the dividing line between Atlantic and pacific?
Continental Divide is the drainage that divides sea or ocean. The Great Divide or the Continental Divide of the Americas is the division of the Pacific Ocean watersheds from the Atlantic and Arctic.
How are a divide and a drainage basin related?
they have land
What is the dividing line between atlantic and pacific watersheds?
Continental Divide is the drainage that divides sea or ocean. The Great Divide or the Continental Divide of the Americas is the division of the Pacific Ocean watersheds from the Atlantic and Arctic.
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.
