USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -For example, the Continental Divide of the Americas, or the Great Divide, runs through much of North and South America. It separates the water that runs toward the Pacific Ocean from the water that runs toward the Atlantic and Arctic Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico.

Detailed explanation-2: -A continental divide is a drainage divide on a continent such that the drainage basin on one side of the divide feeds into one ocean or sea and the basin on the other side feeds into a different ocean or sea. .

Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Continental Divide traversing North America from Canada south through Mexico into South America is the result of a small tectonic plate that was subducted under the North American plate approximately 70 million years ago.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Continental Divide in the Americas is the line that divides the flow of water between the Pacific Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean. Rain or snow that drains on the east side of the Continental Divide flows toward the Atlantic Ocean. Precipitation on the west side drains and flows toward the Pacific Ocean.