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What is the name for the land that is drained by the river system?

a watershed, also called a drainage basin, is an area drained by a river.


What is an area of land that is drained by a river?

basin


What is the area called where rivers flood land?

A river basin is an area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.


A river and its tributaries make up a?

A river system that operates inside a drainage basin. A drainage basin is the area of land drained by a river and its tributaries.


What is our land drained by a river and it's branches river?

Land drained by a river is a watershed. This is an area of land that feeds all the water running under it and draining off of it into a body of water.


What best describes a watershed?

It is an area of land that is drained by a river. It is also a ridge or elevated area of land that divides two areas of land that are drained by two river systems.


What is an area of land drained by a river and is branches called?

An area of land that drains to one river (or a river and its tributaries) is a drainage basin or watershed.


What is the area of a land drained by a river?

The area of land drained by a river is called a "catchment area". It is so-called because is the the area that catches the precipitation (rainfall).Another term is "river basin", but this is less specific.(The geographical term, "catchment area", is often used to describe the area served by, say, a school or hospital).


What is the area of land drained by a water system?

watershed


A area of land drained by a water system?

watershed


What is land drained by a river system which includes the main river and all its tributaries?

Drainage basin.


The entire area of land that has its water drained into the Mississippi River is known as a?

watershed