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Large-circular moving current of water within an ocean basin are?
gyres
Large circular-moving currents of water within an ocean basin are called?
Gyres
How does an ocean basin form?
An ocean basin is formed when water has covered a large portion of the Earth’s crust. In the distant past, this may have happened when there was an increase in available water, or a fall of landmass. Over a long period of time, an oceanic basin can be created by the spreading of the seafloor and the movement of tectonic plates.
What area of land where water in drained downhill into a body of water known as the drainage basin or?
A drainage basin is the area of land where all the water that falls as precipitation drains downhill into a body of water such as a river, lake, or ocean. The basin is defined by the natural topography of the land, with all the water within it ultimately flowing towards a common outlet.
Why does water in a bowl shaped drainage basin not eventually flow to the ocean?
Because the water may collect at the bottom of the basin, or evaporate.
What is a sea?
# A tract of water within an ocean. # A relatively large body of salt water completely or partially enclosed by land. # A relatively large landlocked body of fresh water. # All of the above describe a sea.
Does the great basin need large amount of water to survive?
no it does not need large amounts of water to survive
Why does the Amazon rain forest get so much water?
In the case of the Bolivia Amazon Basin. the large amount of rainfall is due to northeasterly winds picking up moisture over the warm Atlantic ocean. Which then crosses the Amazon Basin where it then falls
What river basin will water collect in the flows to the west and east off the Eastern Continental Divide?
Water flowing to the west off the Eastern Continental Divide will collect in the Mississippi River Basin, while water flowing to the east will collect in the Atlantic Ocean Basin.
What is a large area of water?
A large area of water is an ocean.
Why there is water in the ocean?
There is a lot of water on earth. The ocean is just a huge basin that hold all of it. Only the highest land can escape from the water and become what is now known as dry land
Do plants in the great basin need large amounts of water to survive?
Yes.
