Question

An area on one side of a mountain that is dry because the mountains break up weather systems, preventing rain from falling is called a/an:

Group of answer choices

rain breaker

deforested land

rain shadow (orographic effect)

arable land

Answer 1

Answer: A rain shadow

Explanation 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.