The answer is A. Please give brainiest
It would be "1. The majority opinion" that enables the Supreme Court to make its decision, since it is made up of nine members--meaning that landing on a "tie" is impossible.
It would be drier because the mountains would stop rain from coming over into the valley. It's called the rain shadow effect or something. That's has much as I know.
The 'two rivers' of the name referred to the Tigris and the Euphrates rivers and the land was known as 'Al-Jazirah' (the island) by the Arabs referencing what Egyptologist J.H. Breasted would later call the Fertile Crescent, where Mesopotamian civilization began.