Using the concept of the water balance that you learned in earlier chapters, speculate why basins of interior drainage in the United States are only in the west
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The West has much drier climates than the East so evapotranspiration predominates over precipitation. The runoff from the mountains into basins formed by faulting evaporates before it can flow over a pass and out to see. Thus, the water budget is in a perpetual deficit.
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A. A B. B C. C D. D
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