While camping up at hal mountain (5,500 feet above sea level), it generally takes sandy about the same amount of time to boil water for her soup as it takes to make a sandwich. this week, sandy is camping at a trail that is only about 200 feet above sea level. sandy is very hungry and wants something to eat immediately. should she make the soup or sandwich? which would be ready more quickly and why?

a rain shadow is a dry region of land on the side that is protected against the prevailing winds of a mountain range. the prevailing winds are the winds that occur most of the time in a particular place of the earth

prevailing winds carry air toward the mountain range. as the air rises up over a mountain range, the air cools, water vapor condenses, and clouds form. on this side of the mountains, called the windward side, precipitation falls in the form of  rain  or snow. this dry air produces a  rain shadow.