SSC
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Question
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What is the area between the Pacific Ranges and the Rocky Mountains that often experiences the rain shadow effect?
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the Continental Divide
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the Great Plains
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the Columbia Plateau
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the Atlantic Coastal Plain
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Because to the “rainshadow effect” generated by the Sierra Nevada Mountains in eastern California, the Great Basin Desert occurs.
Detailed explanation-2: -This occurs when mountains block rainfall from getting to the other side of the mountain range, casting a “shadow” of warm, dry, air. This occurs when rising moist air cools and molecules clump together. When water does this from the oceans, the vapor is picked up by winds and pushed toward land.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Canadian Shield is giant core of rock anchoring North America and centered on Hudson Bay and James Bay.
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