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. "
The main watershed in Virginia is the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries are the largest estuary in the United States, and the watershed covers parts of six states including Virginia.
A watershed divide is a ridge of land that separates one watershed from another by directing the flow of surface water in different directions.
A watershed is the landform that separates two catchment areas. Commonly a ridge or a spur. The form of the watershed may be affected by erosion, or more rarely, by tectonic land uplift / subsidence forces.
Factors that affect the health of a watershed include land use practices, pollution from agriculture and urban runoff, natural disasters, climate change, and habitat destruction. These factors can impact water quality, biodiversity, and overall ecosystem function within the watershed.
The amount of rainfall affects the flow of the streams within the watershed area, and ultimately how much water is stored in the watershed.
The watershed divided the water from the other side of th4 river water
After the earthquake, the watershed between the small creeks had moved to the west. We are at a watershed moment in the history of human genetic research.
The great lakes have a watershed seperating the lakes from the sea
There are many watersheds in the Great Lakes
If a program is on 'after the watershed,' it means it is on after a certain time, due to it being innapropriate for youngsters, so in a sentence it would be something like: "The British program 'Shameless' is on after the watershed because it's incredibly innapropriate" "Thankfully, Doctor Who airs before the watershed, so my kids still get to watch it on a Saturday night" "He can't say f**k, it's not past the watershed yet!" 'Watershed' is basically a noun that describes a dividing line between two time periods.
The term Watershed when use in a Sentence like, "That was a watershed moment", means simply a turning point. So a television watershed could mean a point in time when things changed. For instance, the very First Super Bowl broadcast is considered a watershed moment in television. Some people feel that President Reagan's speech calling the Soviet Union an evil empire was a watershed moment in politics.
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 watershed does everyone live on
You can change a watershed by polluting it
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James River Watershed
It is 128 kilometers long and has a watershed of 3,990 square kilometers,so basicaly it is a watershed!^.^