Identify the true statement about drainage divides. A drainage divide is a ridge that separates one watershed from another. Precipitation that falls on the west side of the continental divide flows to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. The divide that runs along the crest of the Appalachians separates the Atlantic Ocean drainage from the Arctic Ocean drainage. The ultimate base level for streams on the east side of the continental divide is the Pacific Ocean.

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5 December, 22:12

Identify the true statement about drainage divides. A drainage divide is a ridge that separates one watershed from another. Precipitation that falls on the west side of the continental divide flows to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean. The divide that runs along the crest of the Appalachians separates the Atlantic Ocean drainage from the Arctic Ocean drainage. The ultimate base level for streams on the east side of the continental divide is the Pacific Ocean.

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A drainage divide is a ridge that separates one watershed from another

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A drainage divide is the natural feature that is dividing the watersheds, or rather it is a ridge of a mountain or hill that is dividing the waters. The drainage divides determine where the water will go, on which side, in which streams and rivers. Some of them are larger, some are smaller, but they all do the same job. Where the waters from a certain watershed will end up though depends on the topography of the terrain, which can make them the waters move in any direction, or better said from higher to lower places. This occasionally gives weird paths of the waters from some watershed, as the watershed can be very close to a big body of water, but the topography moves it away from it, and it ends up in a body of water hundreds or even thousands km away.