GEOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A watershed is an area of land that drains or “sheds” water into a specific waterbody. Every body of water has a watershed. Watersheds drain rainfall and snowmelt into streams and rivers. These smaller bodies of water flow into larger ones, including lakes, bays, and oceans.

Detailed explanation-2: -A watershed, also called a drainage basin or catchment, is an area drained by a river and its tributaries.

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 is an area of land that channels rainfall, snowmelt, and runoff into a common body of water. The term “watershed” is often used interchangeably with “drainage basin, ” which may make the concept easier to visualize.

Detailed explanation-5: -The flow of water through well-defined channels is known as drainage and the network of such channels is called a “drainage system”. The drainage system of an area is the outcome of the geological time period, nature and structure of rocks, slope, topography, amount of water flowing and the periodicity of flow.