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A watershed boundary is the line separating one watershed from another. It marks the area where water flows into a particular river, lake, or ocean. Everything that falls within a watershed boundary ultimately drains to the same outlet point.

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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 determines the boundary of a watershed?

elevation features like hills, mountains, and ridges


The boundary between drainage areas that have streams that flow in opposite directions?

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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.


What is the boundary of a drainage basin?

Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.


Why is a watershed important?

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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?

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What the area of a high ground that divides the flow of rivers towards oppsiteend of a continent?

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What is a nested watershed?

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What does watershed mean?

Catskill Mountains. Catskill watershed would be the path or method water comes off of them, where it goes or is channeled.


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