DIVIDE: The boundary or high ground between river systems, Srr eams In North Am erica a conrinenral divide called the Great Di vide o n one side of rh e divide flow in a different direcrion and into a runs along th e crest of th e Rocky Mounrains, d ividin g rivers that d ifferent drainage basin from th e strea ms on the other side. A flow ro the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic Ocean fro m th ose continental divide is the boundary that separates the rivers th at flow into the Pacific Oc ea n . An o rhe r much lower d ivide flowing roward opposite sid es of a continent. sep ar at es those rivers that flow north through Hudson Bay to the
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