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What is a river basin and how does a tributary increase it size?
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A river basin is an area of land where all the water not absorbed into the ground or evaporated into the air drains into one particular river. A tributary does not increase the size of a river basin because all a river's tributaries are already included in a river basin.
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What is a river basin and how does it tributary increase its size?
A river basin is an area of land where all the water not absorbed into the ground or evaporated into the air drains into one particular river. A tributary does not increase the size of a river basin because all a river's tributaries are already included in a river basin.
Do rivers expand in size?
When a tributary joins a river, the river expands.
What is a sentence using the word tributary?
The tributary flowed mostly into the delta, not the main channel of the river. The Missouri River is the longest tributary of the Mississippi river.
Is the river basin of the river Amazon the size of Europe?
Yes
What it is A stream that flows into river?
tributary is the collective term A tributary is a smaller stream which flows into a larger river. The name of an individual stream depends on the size of the stream. It may be a river or a creek or a canal if it is manmade.
List these in order of size tributary stream rill gully runoff river?
RunoffRillGullyStreamRiver
What is the size of the river Trent's drainage basin?
1014 kilometres squared
What rivers flow into a body of water?
The rhone river flows into the mediterranean sea,the volga river flows into the caspian sea,the rhine river flows into the north sea,the thames river flows into the north sea,and the danube river flows into the black sea Thanks for reading bye hope my answers were a help to you all
Is the Amazon River basin a basin?
The Amazon River of South America is the second longest river in the world with an average discharge greater than the next six largest rivers combined. The Amazon, which has the largest drainage basin in the world, about 7,050,000 square kilometres (2,720,000 sq mi), accounts for approximately one-fifth of the world's total river flow. The river drains into the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the size of the Amazon basin compared to Australia?
The Amazon Basin is the part of South America drained by the Amazon River and its tributaries. The basin is located mainly (40%) in Brazil, but also stretches into Peru and several other countries.
What is the basin size at the Nile River?
The basin covers about 10% of the area of Africa - 1,312,747 square miles and the countries in the basin are - Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea and Kenya.
What are the factors that could increase the chance of a flood in a river basin?
1. Degree of soil saturation 2. Size of drainage basin 3. How widespread the rainfall 4. How heavy the rainfall 5. The drainage pattern (rivers and streams converging) 6. Influences of man: dams, weirs, diversions, drainage ditches, land clearing
