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A what is an area of land that drains to a common of water?
A watershed is an area of land that drains to a common body of water.
What is a raised strip of land called?
A raised strip of land is called a ridge. It is a long, narrow elevation of land that is higher than the surrounding area.
The area where water drains into a river is called?
the area from which water drains into a river is called the river's catchment. A river's watershed is the connecting ridges surrounding the watershed, and separating it from adjacent ones.
What can divergent boundaries form?
A rift zone on land, a mid ocean ridge under the ocean.
A ridge of land that separates one watershed from another is what?
A watershed divide is a ridge of land that separates one watershed from another by directing the flow of surface water in different directions.
What is a ridge of land separating river systems called?
watershed
What best describes a watershed?
It is an area of land that is drained by a river. It is also a ridge or elevated area of land that divides two areas of land that are drained by two river systems.
A height of land separating river basins?
land
What is a height of land separating river basins?
A divide
What is a height of land separating river basins called?
It's call divide or watershed.
What is a ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers?
A ridge of earth along a river that prevents flooding is called a levee. A levee is a long ridge of sand, silt and clay built up by a river along its banks.
What is a stretch of high land that separates river systems?
A divide
A what is an area of land that drains to a common of water?
A watershed is an area of land that drains to a common body of water.
What does divide mean in geographic terms?
In geographic terms, divide refers to a ridge or elevated land that separates the direction water flows. It determines whether water flows into one watershed or another based on the topography of the land. This helps in defining boundaries between different drainage basins.
A river and its tributaries are?
the main river and all of its tributaries are called a river system. The land drained by the river system is called a drainage basin. Drainage basins are separated by the high land in between, known as a divide or watershed.
What is the noun form of the word divide?
The word 'divide' is a noun as a word for a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems; a word for a serious disagreement between two groups of people; a word for a thing.Noun forms of the verb to divide are divider, division, and the gerund, dividing.
Where does rivers start?
The source or headwaters of a river or stream is the place from which the water in the river or stream originate. These sources are usually small springs found high up in the hills or mountains and near to what is called a drainage divide - a ridge of ground which separates land drainage systems with the waters on one side flowing to a different destination to the waters on the other.
