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FrozenT [24]
3 years ago
7

A drainage basin

Geography
1 answer:
weeeeeb [17]3 years ago
3 0

Answer:

All of the choices are correct.

Explanation:

A drainage basin  is an area of land where all precipitation that falls will flow or drain downhill into a specific stream or drains off into a common outlet, such as into a river, bay, or other body of water;in other words, it is a network of streams and rivers that collects rainfall and surface runoff from a broad region of land and funnels the water to other rivers, lakes and oceans. It characteristic include:

Includes the area from which surface water flows into a stream segment.

For a river includes all the drainage basins for that river's tributaries.

Increases in size and proportion to the size of the stream or river it feeds, for the same climate.

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