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There is actually no difference between a divide and a watershed. Both divides and watersheds are lines implemented to designate the separation between drainage basins.
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What is the difference between divide and watershed?
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What is the difference between a watershed and a continental divide?
A watershed is an area of land where all surface water flows to a common point, such as a river or lake. A continental divide is a geographic feature that determines the direction that water will flow on a continent, separating the watersheds that drain into different oceans or seas. In essence, a continental divide is a high point that divides watersheds.
What is watershed in a sentence?
A watershed is also called a drainage basin. An example of a sentence using the word "watershed" is "The watershed north of the Laurentian Divide drains into Hudson Bay and the Arctic Ocean, whereas the watershed south of the Laurentian Divide drains into the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. "
What the differ between divide and watershed?
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What separate one watershed from another?
a divide
A ridge of land that separates one watershed from another is what?
a divide
What are the boundaries of a watershed?
A boundary of watershed is defined by watershed divide. This is the ridge of uppermost elevation surrounding a stream or network of stream. Rainwaters that will fall outside of the boundary will enter different watershed and will flow to different bodies of water.
What is the technical word for the Continental Divide?
It is a hydrological divide or drainage divide. Some also call it a ridgeline, watershed or water parting.
Distinguish detween static and dynamic gain from trade?
Distinguish detween static and dynamic gain from trade?
What is the difference between a river and a watershed?
nothing
What do you call the point from which the rivers flow to the opposite sides of the continent?
In general, such a point is a WATERSHED. In north America, the continental watershed is known as THE GREAT DIVIDE.
What does divide mean in science?
One watershed is separated from another by a ridge of land
