Question

A geographic unit i.E a piece of land that collects stores and releases water

Answer 1

Answer:

The word used to describe such a region is called catchment area.

Answer 2

A Watershed is a geographic unit (a piece of land) that collects, stores, and releases water.

• Rain, snowfall, and fog all contribute to the water collected.
• Lakes, ponds, subsurface soil, and other bodies of water are used to store water.
• Rivers, streams, and groundwater flow discharge the water that has been stored.
• The watershed is the region of land from which water flows gravity-fed to common drainage routes such as streams, rivers, lakes, estuaries, and even the ocean.
• A watershed might be as little as a few square kilometers or as large as a few thousand square kilometers.
• Soil, land, vegetation, land use activities, and water interact in a complicated way throughout the watershed.
• Overgrazing, deforestation, mining, construction activities, industrialization, soil erosion, and shifting agriculture are all factors that contribute to watershed degradation.