Rain Tends to Be Much More Common in Mountains Than

question 112

Multiple Choice

Rain tends to be much more common in mountains than in the adjacent lowlands because

• A) as air travels up the mountains, it cools. Cool air holds less moisture than warm air, and the excess moisture is dropped as rain.
• B) as air travels up the mountains, it is compressed. The mountains squeeze the water out of the air, which is dropped as rain.
• C) because of their great height, mountains are often in the clouds. Precipitation is much greater in these clouds.
• D) as air moves down the mountains, it expands and is unable to form clouds, so no rainfall occurs.
• E) the rainfall is equal in both mountains and lowlands; however, because the rain has farther to travel from the clouds to the lowlands, more of it evaporates before it reaches the ground in the lowlands.

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