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Explain the relationship between a drainage basin and a divide.

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Drainage basin, also called catchment area, or (in North America) watershed, area from which all precipitation flows to a single stream or set of streams.The boundary between drainage basins is a drainage divide: all the precipitation on opposite sides of a drainage divide will flow into different drainage basins.

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