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Vikentia [17]
3 years ago
9

What does it mean to say that a desert is the rain shadow of a mountain?

Geography
1 answer:
KIM [24]3 years ago
8 0

Answer:

A rain shadow is a patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather. On one side of the mountain, wet weather systems drop rain and snow. On the other side of the mountain—the rain shadow side—all that precipitation is blocked.

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