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What is the boundary of a drainage basin called?
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.
What is another name for a drainage basins?
Drainage basin is also called catchment, catchment area, catchment basin, drainage area, river basin, and water basin. It is an area of land. All water that falls on that land flows into one river.
What is the largest drainage drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the entire area that is drained by a large river?
that is what is called a basin
What is the largest drainage basin in the US is?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the largest drainage basin is the US?
What is the largest drainage basin in the US?
What is the relationship between a stream and a drainage basin?
A stream discharges into a drainage basin. A drainage basin is a tract of land drained by a river and its tributaries
What is the land area from which a stream gets water?
Drainage Basin
What are three bodies of fresh water that are above the ground?
the Mississippi river drainage basin, Colorado river drainage basin, and the Columbia river drainage basin
The boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basins are called?
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
What are the boundaries called that separate streams in adjacent drainage basins?
Divides are the boundaries that separate streams in adjacent drainage basin.
What determines which drainage basin a person live in?
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.
