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Definition: Continental Divide |
Continental DivideNoun1. The watershed of a continent (especially the watershed of North America formed by a series of mountain ridges). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The Continental Divide where it passes
through Yellowstone National Park. (larger version)The Continental Divide (aka the Great Divide), is a ridge of mountains in North America, which separates the streams that flow west into the Pacific Ocean from those that flow east into the Atlantic Ocean.
The majority of the divide follows the crest of the Rocky Mountains.
It begins in Alaska and continues into the Yukon Territory and British Columbia in Canada and then heads south through Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico in the United States. It then continues south into Mexico and Central America following the crest of the Sierra Madre Occidental.
The lower portion of the border between the Canadian Provinces of British Columbia and Alberta is defined by the continental divide.
The Continental Divide Trail follows the divide through the U.S. from the Mexican border to the Canadian border.
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A continental divide is a line of elevated terrain which forms a border between two drainage basins such that water falling on one side of the line eventually travels to one ocean, and water on the other side travels to another, generally on the opposite side of the continent. Since the exact border between oceans is usually not clearly defined, the continental divide is not always definite for any continent. For instance, North America has a clear continental divide in the Rocky Mountains along most of its length, draining into the Atlantic Ocean on the east and the Pacific Ocean on the west, while Australia has less distinct ocean boundaries around it, and less prominent mountain ranges, making it hard to define a single divide.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Continental divide."
Crosswords: Continental Divide |
| English words defined with "continental divide": Great Divide, Great Dividing Range ♦ Rockies, Rocky Mountains. (references) |
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Screenplays | They call that the Continental Divide. (All in the Family; writing credit: Johnny Speight; Norman Lear) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Continental Divide (1981) | |
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 | Transportation outfit - party of E.R. Martin International Boundary Commission Continental Divide to Lake of Woods. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Continental Divide. Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Georgetown Lake with mountains of the Continental Divide in the distance. Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | General view of Rocky Mountains west of Continental Divide seen from top of Logan Pass going onto the Sun highway. Glacier Park, Montana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Glacier National Park. On the Continental Divide. Kipps Summit. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Corona Moffat Road, Colo., crest of the Continental Divide, 11,666 ft. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Language | Translations for "continental divide"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | amerikai vízválasztó. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ontinentalcay ivideday.(various references) | |
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"Continental Divide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: continental divid, continential divide, continrntal divide. (additional references) | |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-d-e-e-i-i-i-l-n-n-n-o-t-t-v" | |
-5 letters: antiviolence, nonaddictive, nonidentical. | |
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