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- Direct precipitation/channel catch over the river channel.
- Overland flow/surface runoff where water is running over the land
surface into the channel.
- Throughflow where water having infiltrated into the soil flows parallel
to the surface and into streams above water table/unsaturated zone.
- Groundwater flow where water that has percolated deeper down into
the rock flows parallel to the surface and enters the stream through
hydrostatic pressure flows within saturated zone.
- Pipeflow where water follows roots of vegetation.
May refer to the continuous nature of some of these and relative
permanence.
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How does water reach drainage basin?
By rain and snow!
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.
What determines which drainage basin a person live in?
A drainage basin is simply an area between two ridges from which water drains as a stream or river. A small creek has its own drainage basin. The drainage basin of the Mississippi River includes everything between the Rocky Mountains and the Adirondacks.
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 a drainage basin best defined?
There are many different kinds of drainage basin on the surface of the earth.
A streams drainage basin is all the water that?
flows into it
What is the largest drainage drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
Land area that gathers water for river is its?
Drainage basin
How are tributary and drainage basin the same?
they both have to do with rivers and water.
What is the land area that contributes water to a stream?
Drainage Basin
