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Where is the biggest watershed located?
The Mississippi River basin is the largest watershed in the U.S
What land area supplies water to a river system?
The catchment is the correct answer. Commonly folk say 'watershed' but the watershed is the boundary (ridges etc) of the catchment.
How does water exit a watershed?
Via the mouth of the river into the sea. Also as a watershed just describes where surface water travels in the catchment water can infiltrate into the rock and travel into a different catchment / watershed.
About what percent of US land is within the Mississippi river watershed?
40
In which of state is the Continental Divide located?
The Continental Divide separates the watershed of the Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic oceans meaning that drainage down the east of the mountain range will go into the Atlantic, while westward drainage will flow into the Pacific. The Continental Divide in the United States is located in the Rocky Mountain Range. The states that contain the Great Divide from north to south: - Montana - Idaho - Wyoming - Colorado - New Mexico - Arizona
What the name of the mountains that start the watershed?
Drankensburg mountain
What is a mountain ridge that separates river systems?
continmental dividecontinental divide
Why are mountain ridges located at the edge of this watershed?
Because the mountain is connected to the stream and the river which leads to the edge of a water shed.
Why are the mountain ridges located at the edge of the watershed?
Because the mountain is connected to the stream and the river which leads to the edge of a water shed.
The beginning of river is usually located?
At the watershed, at top of the mountain or upland region\area.
What is the term for a mountain range that separates rivers flowing toward opposite sides of a continent?
A watershed.
What is a nested watershed?
A nested watershed is simply a watershed within a watershed. An example might be the Platte River watershed which is a nested watershed within the Missouri River watershed which in turn is nested within the Mississippi River watershed.
What are non examples of an watershed?
A desert or a mountain summit would be examples of non-watersheds, as these areas do not collect or funnel water into a single point like a watershed does. Conversely, an ocean or a lake is not a watershed because they are bodies of water that receive water from multiple sources rather than collecting and channeling water runoff.
What land feature separates watersheds?
A ridgeline or mountain range commonly separates watersheds. Rainwater or snowmelt that falls on one side of the ridgeline will flow into one watershed, while water on the opposite side will flow into a different watershed.
A mountain ridge that separates river systems is called?
A mountain ridge that separates river systems is called a watershed or a drainage divide. This geographic feature determines the direction in which water flows, dividing the flow of water into different river basins.
What watershed do you live on?
what watershed does everyone live on
What is an elevated boundary between areas that are drained by different river systems They range in height from a slight rise in the land to the crest of a mountain?
Its called the watershed.
