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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.
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).
How does a devide help determine a drainage basin?
Only waterways that are on the same side of the divide as the basin could empty into it.
What is the largest drainage drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the imaginary line called which separates one drainage basin?
A divide.
What is the largest drainage basin in the US is?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin is the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
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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What is the relationship between a stream and a drainage basin?
A stream discharges into a drainage basin. A drainage basin is a tract of land drained by a river and its tributaries
What is the land area from which a stream gets water?
Drainage Basin
What are three bodies of fresh water that are above the ground?
the Mississippi river drainage basin, Colorado river drainage basin, and the Columbia river drainage basin
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.
