Question

Select the correct text in the passage. This paragraph attempts to explain the rain shadow effect, but it gets some of the facts wrong. Identify the inaccurate statements in the paragraph. The Mojave Desert provides a famous example of a rain shadow effect in the Sierra Nevada. Warm, moist air goes up the mountain on its leeward side, where its water content condenses to precipitate as rain or snow. Then the cold, dry air moves to the other side, where the desert lies. This side is called the windward side and, compared with the leeward side, receives hardly any rainfall. This rain shadow effect is responsible for the dryness and extreme climate of the desert.

Answer 1

Answers:

The entire passage is correct, only the words "windward" and "leeward" should be interchanged.

The inaccurate statements are-

(a) The warm and moist air rising up the mountain on its leeward side

(b) The cool and dry air moves towards the other side of the mountain where the desert lies and is the windward side

Explanation:

In order to form a rain shadow effect, the warm and moisture containing air rises up the mountain on its windward side. The water in this high region gets condensed and starts precipitating in the form of rain or snow.

After precipitation, the air becomes dry and warm and moves towards the leeward side where there is the desert. The leeward side does not receive any rainfall and this rain shadow zone is mainly the reason behind the dryness and the extreme climates in the deserts.

The words that are underlined above are the wrong words in the given paragraph.