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Orographic effect
Webster Bednar
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What happens when moist air pushes a mountain?
Orographic effect
What dry region forms at the back of the mountain?
A rain shadow desert forms at the back of a mountain range. As moist air is pushed up over the mountains, it cools, condenses, and releases precipitation on the windward side. By the time the air descends on the other side, it is drier, leading to arid conditions and the formation of a desert.
What is the noise you hear when you rub your eyes?
When the air in your eyelids is pushed out through the moist surface, the sound is made.
What happened to a soil when you leached with water?
it becomes moist
What is the order of the mountain effect?
first water evaporates mostly from oceans, then the wind carries the moist air inland, then the moist air cools as the wind pushes it up the mountain, then as it condense causing rain on the windward side of the mountain, then as the air reaches the leeward side of the mountain it warms and falls and then last but not least the warmer air produces a rain shadow on the opposite side of the mountain
What is orthographic precipitation?
Created when warm, moist air is forces to rise over a barrier. (mountain).
What happens to the presence of water vapor as one increase in altitude and why is this?
The higher you go, the colder it gets. The colder it gets, the less water vapor can remain in the air. That's the reason it rains on the windward side of mountain ranges. Warm, moist air gets pushed up and the rain condenses.
What keeps the fetus moist and protects against injurys?
Amniotic fluid
What happens when a warm humid air mass is pushed ahead of a cold front?
It produces lift which if in a moist enough airmass will produce thunderstorms
What is it called when a mountain blocks the movement of moist air making one side of the mountain receive more rain than the other?
You are referring to a "rain shadow".
What effect is where moist air blows up a mountain side cools as the air increases in elevation?
Rainshadow
Where do Diana butterflies live?
The southern Appalachians. They are a deep woods species, found in moist mountain woodlands.
