Drainage Divides and Topography in Watersheds Exercise

Drainage Divides and Topography in Watersheds

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Drainage Divides and Topography in Watersheds

Understand how landscape elevation and drainage divides determine the boundaries and flow directions of watersheds.

Questions

  1. MultiChoice

    What topographic feature acts as a boundary between two adjacent drainage basins?

  2. MultiChoice

    What is the famous divide in North America that determines whether water flows toward the Pacific or Atlantic Oceans?

  3. MultiChoice

    If rain falls on the west side of the Great Continental Divide in North America, where will it eventually flow?

  4. MultiChoice

    What type of map uses contour lines to show land elevation and watershed slopes?

  5. MultiChoice

    What do closely spaced contour lines on a topographic map indicate about terrain?

  6. MultiChoice

    How can you identify a river valley on a topographic map?

  7. MultiChoice

    What is a headwater stream?

  8. MultiChoice

    Why do high-elevation headwater streams usually flow rapidly?

  9. MultiChoice

    What happens to the slope (gradient) of a river as it moves from mountain headwaters to the coast?

  10. MultiChoice

    What is the drainage pattern called that resembles the branches of a tree?

  11. MultiChoice

    What happens to water falling into an endorheic basin (closed basin)?

  12. MultiChoice

    Great Salt Lake in Utah is an example of what type of water body?