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elevation features like hills, mountains, and ridges
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 14y agoThe farthest edges of the two feeder basins determines the boundaries of a watershed.
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What is a watershed boundary?
A watershed boundary is the line separating one watershed from another. It marks the area where water flows into a particular river, lake, or ocean. Everything that falls within a watershed boundary ultimately drains to the same outlet point.
What are the boundaries of a watershed?
A boundary of watershed is defined by watershed divide. This is the ridge of uppermost elevation surrounding a stream or network of stream. Rainwaters that will fall outside of the boundary will enter different watershed and will flow to different bodies of water.
The boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions?
river watershed
What elevated boundary between areas are drained by different river systems?
Divide
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?
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
Why is a watershed important?
A watershed is called a watershed as it supply the water in a drainage system.A watershed is a defining moment of insight and claritywhere healing begins and lives are reclaimed
What is an elevated boundary between areas that are drained by different river systems They range in height from a slight rise in the land to the crest of a mountain?
Its called the watershed.
What the area of a high ground that divides the flow of rivers towards oppsiteend of a continent?
The area you are referring to is called a watershed or a divide. It is a boundary separating the flow of rivers towards different sides of a continent. The size of the watershed can vary depending on the topography and geography of the region.
What is a nested watershed?
A nested watershed is simply a watershed within a watershed. An example might be the Platte River watershed which is a nested watershed within the Missouri River watershed which in turn is nested within the Mississippi River watershed.
What does watershed mean?
Catskill Mountains. Catskill watershed would be the path or method water comes off of them, where it goes or is channeled.
What is the difference between a watershed and a continental divide?
A watershed is an area of land where all surface water flows to a common point, such as a river or lake. A continental divide is a geographic feature that determines the direction that water will flow on a continent, separating the watersheds that drain into different oceans or seas. In essence, a continental divide is a high point that divides watersheds.
