Answer: It occurs because of the rain shadow effect
Explanation: Air expands and cools when air mass moves from a low elevation to a high elevation. Cool air can hardly hold moisture, and this leads to cloud formation. As the cool air rises up a mountain, it leads to rainfall.
After the air mass crosses over the peak of the mountain and starts down the other side, the air warms up and the clouds dissipate, which in turn leads to less rainfall and snowfall.
The correct answer is B. Seamount, guyot, atoll.
The seamount represents an underwater mountain that occurs as consequence of volcanic activity, occasionally they get above the surface of the water and create islands (Hawaii, Iceland). After some time, the erosion cause the island to dissolve and get back under water, the water will flatten it's top, and that is actually the formation of the guyot. Once the guyot is formed, on it's top a coral colony will start developing and little by little make a circle shaped island, which represents the formation of the atoll.
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