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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
Any channel that carries water is called?
drainage basin
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.
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).
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 a parent river?
A parent river the principal channel of a drainage basin; also called a main stem.
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?
What is the land area from which a stream gets water?
Drainage Basin
What are three bodies of fresh water that are above the ground?
the Mississippi river drainage basin, Colorado river drainage basin, and the Columbia river drainage basin
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.
