The leeward side of the mountain is the side of the mountain that is covered by wind and you may notice that that side is drier than the windward side, which is the side that faces the incoming wind.
Now the leeward side temperature increases from top to bottom because when the air goes up the mountain from the windward side, it loses most of its moisture. So by the time the air goes down the leeward side, it lacks moisture and heats up as it loses even more moisture going down. This is called the rain shadow effect.
Pollution is the primary cause
Answer:
No
Explanation:
Water does not pass the test of being a solid so it is not considered a mineral although ice; which is solid, is classified as a mineral as long as it is naturally occurring. Thus ice in a snow bank is a mineral, but ice in an ice cube from a refrigerator is not.
If you look at the "memory" of the rocks being created and moving away from each other at the mid-Atlantic ridge, you can see where the magnetic poles flipped from north to south and back again.
<span>Looking at the rocks each side of the ridge shows that they are magnetic mirror images of each other and therefore that the surface of the Earth (at this point) is moving away from the ridge.</span>