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What is the difference between drainage divide and drainage basin?
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∙ 15y ago
a drainage basin is where water from rain fall or snow melting drains downhill into a river or stream, or another kind of body of water.http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage_basin a ocean basin is technically anywhere on earth that is covered by seawater. but according to the geologist an ocean basin is below sea level.http:/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_basin
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 15y agoDrainage Basis is an area where all the rivers flow to the lowest point of elevation. Think of the Mississippi River and its tributaries, (Missouri River, Red River, etc) and how it flows down to New Orleans, the lowest point of elevation. Drainage Divide is simply a boundary that separate two drainage basins.
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∙ 14y agothe watershed is the divide line between neighbouring drainage basins precipitation landing on a particular side of the watershed will stay in that drainage basin until it is evaporated or reaches the sea.
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∙ 11y agoThe term watershed is used to describe a smaller area of land that drains to a stream, lake or wetland. Many watersheds can reside within a large river basin.
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∙ 11y agoA delta is a low-lying area found out the mouth of a river and formed of deposits where as a drainage basin is an area of landed drained by a river and its tributaries.
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∙ 11y ago- the both flow and that is it
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∙ 14y agoNone, they are the same thing.
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∙ 14y agothe watershed
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What is a drainage basin best defined?
There are many different kinds of drainage basin on the surface of the earth.
What is it called when an area of land from which a stream or river collects runoff?
A drainage basin/ watershed.
What is the difference between a shower and a tub?
The difference between a shower and a tub is the shower tends to enclosed with water that comes out of a shower head above while a tub has a faucet that pours into a large basin.
What is the main difference between the perennial system of irrigation and the basin system of irrigation?
The perennial system allows for the planting of multiple crops while the basin system only allows for the planting of one main crop.
How was the Amazon basin formed?
volcanic formation
Explain the difference between a drainage basin and a drainage divide?
A drainage basin is an extent or area of land where water from rain and melting snow or ice drains downhill into a body of water, such as a river, lake, reservoir, estuary, wetland, sea or ocean. A drainage divide is the line separating neighbouring drainage basins (catchments).
How are a divide and a drainage basin related?
they have land
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 the relationship between a stream and a drainage basin?
A stream discharges into a drainage basin. A drainage basin is a tract of land drained by a river and its tributaries
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.
How does a devide help determine a drainage basin?
Only waterways that are on the same side of the divide as the basin could empty into it.
Where is the Mississippi drainage basin located?
the mississippi drainage basin is located between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains
What is the largest drainage drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the imaginary line called which separates one drainage basin?
A divide.
What is the largest drainage basin in the US is?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin is the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
A drainage basin is the area of land where surface water is drained downhill into a body of water. A divide is?
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