CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A watershed is an area of land that drains rainfall and snowmelt into streams and rivers.

Detailed explanation-2: -A watershed is the area of land (catchment area) that captures rain and snow, and then stores, filters, seeps or drains this water into a common water body (marsh, stream, river, or lake).

Detailed explanation-3: -A watershed is the area of land where all of the water that falls in it and drains off of it goes to a common outlet. Watersheds can be as small as a footprint or large enough to encompass all the land that drains water into rivers that drain into Chesapeake Bay, where it enters the Atlantic Ocean.

Detailed explanation-4: -A watershed, also called a drainage basin or catchment, is an area drained by a river and its tributaries.

Detailed explanation-5: -Terms in this set (20) The land area that supplies water to a river system is called a watershed.