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Airflow confronting a mountain barrier, causing the air to rise
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What is another name for the orographic effect?
The orographic effect occurs when winf from over the ocean passes over a mountain and the lack of rain creates a desert on the other side.
What is best described by the exchange of information?
communication
Uplift replaces rocks on Earth's surface lost to the process of what?
Uplift replaces rocks on Earth's surface lost the process of erosion.
The term orographic refers to?
orographic lifting: the uplift of migrating air mass as it is forced to move upward over a mountain range.
What are the causes of uplift in the atmosphere?
Convection (rising air), orographic uplift/forced convection (air up a mountain), frontal uplift (front), and convergence uplift (air masses converge)
What weather process produces snow in the Rocky Mountains?
orographic uplift and cooler temperatures
What is a sentence with the word orographic effect?
Orographic effect is just a change in atmospheric conditions due to elevation, especially when mountains are involved.That storm is caused by orographic effect.We studied orographic effect in class.
Convectional and orographic are?
types of rainfall. orographic is commonly called relief rainfall.
Which type of rainfall is caused by mountains in the way?
Rainfall in mountain areas is called: Orographic rainfall.
What is oragraphic rainfall?
The correct spelling is orographic rainfall instead of orographic rainfall. When moist air is lifted over a mountain by the wind, the result is orographic rainfall.
Can you give me a sentence with the word orographic effect?
The orographic effect is rain or snow that occurs.
What is the position of rock layers?
uplift
Can you give a sentences with the word orographic effect?
The orographic effect can cause flooding in the area of effect
What is orographic associated with?
Mountains.
Which regions of crust are raised to a higher elevation?
Uplift is the process by which regions of the earth's crust are raised to higher elevations.
