they both have to do with rivers and water.
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
murray darling basin is one
The term "watershed" is sometimes used, though this is a little ambiguous, since some people use it in a way that's essentially synonymous with "drainage basin", and some people use it for the boundaries between drainage basins.
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.
Drainage Basin
Drainage Basin
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.
drainage basin
it sounds like a drainage basin
the mississippi drainage basin is located between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains
The land area that supplies water to a river stream.I think this is incorrect:my understanding is that a drainage basin is somthing that supplies a river or stream, a water shed is a dividing line between drainage basins?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
A drainage basin/ watershed.
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?