More mountainous is Western South America. Through all of the western part of the continent, as a linear mountain range are spread the Andes, in a direction from north to south. They are also the highest mountainous parts of the continent, by far the longest, and also are one of the steepest mountains.
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B) The warm, moist Pacific air rises and cools, releasing precipitation as it moves up the windward side of the range, and this cool, now dry air mass heats up as it descends on the leeward side of the range
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The air masses that have formed over the Pacific and move toward the western coast of the United States are warm and moist ones. As they reach the coastline they continue into the mainland, but only to come upon a natural barrier, a north-south mountain range. The warm and moist air starts to move up and starts to cool off, and as it does, condensation occurs, thus the windward side of the mountain range gets a lot of precipitation. The cool, but now dry air continuous its movement across the mountain range, and moves down its leeward side. As it moves down on the leeward side it heats up again, so it becomes a warm and dry air mass. This makes the leeward side very dry, so it is no wonder that it is dominated by desert and semi-desert.
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Convection currents drive the movement of Earth's rigid tectonic plates in the planet's fluid molten mantle. In places where convection currents rise up towards the crust's surface, tectonic plates move away from each other in a process known as seafloor spreading.
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You can’t tell if the brightest stars in Orion are really brighter than the others, or
if they are just closer to us.
The stars in Orion are all the same distance from us. That is why we see the shape
of the constellation.
The stars are arranged in the constellation Orion for only part of a year. The rest
of the year they change their pattern and form different constellations.
Explain your thinking. Describe what you know about stars that form constellations.
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