When moist wind from an ocean blows onshore
toward a mountain range:
A. as the air rises, it pulls moisture from the ground, causing
the higher elevations to be drier.
B. as the air rises, it holds less moisture, causing the
dissipation of all clouds.
C. as the air goes over the top of the mountain and falls back
down toward lower elevations, it holds more moisture, creating a
"rain shadow" desert with very little precipitation.
D. as the air goes over the top of the mountain and falls back
down toward lower elevations, it holds less moisture, creating a
"rain shadow" zone of unusually high precipitation.
E. None of the above.