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What is the low dry area west of the Rocky Mountains?
Great Basin.
What is the low bowl-shaped dry area west of the Rocky Mountains?
Great Basin
The dry treeless region that lies between the Mississippi and the rocky mountains is called?
The GREAT PLAINS is a dry, treeless region that lies between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
Why is the western region of the Midwest very dry?
The western region of the midwest of the US is in the shadow of the Rocky Mountains. Bedause the Rocky Mountains are so high, the moisture can not rise high enough to go over them, causing the air that reaches the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains to be dry.
How does the rocky mountains affect weather?
Death Valley has the rocky mountains next to it. The mountains are taller than the valley so they block the rain and cool winds from making death valley cooler so it has a hot and dry climate. Tall mountains do block the rain and cool winds but they are not the Rockies. To the West are the Panamints and to the East are the Funeral Mountains.
What is to the east of the Andes mountains?
Because it is dry
How do the mountains in western Washington most likely affect the weather in the area to the east of them?
They make it dry by blocking rain from the west.
What is the topography of the Middle East?
The Middle East is the region where Christianity was born. The topography of the area includes deserts, mountains and dry plateaus.
What climate does a snow leopard need to live in?
I'm not sure where they NEED to live, but i do know that they live in a cold and dry area high up in the rocky mountains of Central Asia.
Why are western states dry?
because the rocky mountains are suppost to be dry because the mouintains made of rock but the sates east of it are also probably dessarts and stuff like abunch of rocks thats why ok theres your anwser
What special dry warm wind that blows from the Rocky Mountains down into the valleys below is called a?
Chinook
What is A special dry warm wind that blows from the Rocky Mountains down into the valleys below is called a?
Chinook
