I believe the answer is: <span>is usually intense
Desert is located in region with low elevation. The little to no rainfall that they get is happened because the flow of water that come to its way is blocked by objects (such as mountain) in higher elevation.
If, they had a rainfall, the water carrying cloud must be big enough to be blocked by mountains and yet still pass through, which resulted in intense rainfall.</span>
ANSWER : Risk control develops safeguards that reduce risks and their impact
<span>d. all of the above.</span>
The cataracts kept lower Egypt from coming up the Nile to trade. It made trade decline between the two.