EARTH SCIENCE
GROUNDWATER
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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the channel of a stream
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the land covered by floodwaters
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the land area that contributes water to a river
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all streams that flow directly to the ocean
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Detailed explanation-1: -A river drainage basin is an area drained by a river and all of its tributaries. A river basin is made up of many different watersheds. A watershed is a small version of a river basin. Every stream and tributary has its own watershed, which drains to a larger stream or wetland.
Detailed explanation-2: -drainage basin, also called catchment area, or (in North America) watershed, area from which all precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams.
Detailed explanation-3: -A river basin is the portion of land drained by a river and its tributaries. It encompasses all of the land surface dissected and drained by many streams and creeks that flow downhill into one another, and eventually into the Milwaukee River.
Detailed explanation-4: -A watershed is an area of land that drains all the streams and rainfall to a common outlet such as the outflow of a reservoir, mouth of a bay, or any point along a stream channel.
Detailed explanation-5: -’Drainage’ is a term which describes the river system of an area. A drainage basin or river basin is an area which is drained by a single river system. An upland that separates two drainage systems that are next to each other is called a water divide.