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The Tibetan Plateau and the Gobi Desert
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What areas are included in the Himalayas' rain shadow?
The Tibetan Plateau and the Gobi Desert
What desert covers parts of china and Mongolia and fall in the rain shadow areas of Himalayas?
Gobi Desert
What desert covers parts of China and Mongolia and falls in the rain shadow areas of the Himalayas?
The Gobi Desert
What is a sentence using the term rain shadow?
The rain shadow of the Himalayas makes the Tibetan Plateau comparatively dry. The high mountains blocked the clouds, creating a rain shadow for the valleys to the east.
Does the rain shadow effect cause rain to fall in equal distributions over all areas?
NO
How did the Himalayas help create deserts in central Asia?
Frequently mountain ranges will block the flow of moisture laden air off an ocean from crossing into the interior of a continent. The moisture is forced upward by the mountains where it condenses and falls as rain or snow on the windward side of the mountains leaving a rain shadow desert on the leeward side. See the image above.
What does rain shadow effect?
The rain shadow equals rain
How was the gobi desert formed?
I am not the right person to explain this, but to put it simple - the moist air is not able to pass threw the himalayas (because they are so high) therefor, limited moisture is provided to the gobi region, thus creating a desert.
What does rain shadow effect explained?
The rain shadow equals rain
Can a desert be formed anywhere?
No, deserts can only form in areas with specific geographic conditions - such as a rain shadow.
What is an example of a rain shadow?
Death Valley is a rain shadow desert in the U.S. It is in the rain shadow effect of the Sierra Nevada mountain range.
Why is it that some of the largest deserts in the world are found to the north of the Himalayan Mountains and the Tibetan Plateau?
The Himalayas block the monsoon moisture from crossing into northern Asia and form a rain shadow.
