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3 years ago
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Explain the “rain shadow” effect.

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Yuliya22 [10]3 years ago
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A rain shadow is a dry region of land on the side of a mountain range that is protected from the prevailing winds. Prevailing winds are the winds that occur most of the time in a particular location on the Earth. The protected side of a mountain range is also called the lee side or the down-wind side.
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