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The image, titled 'The formation of rain-shadow deserts', diagrams a 7-step process across a geographical cross-section spanning 'Thousands of kilometres'. The process begins over the 'Sea' and 'Coast' with step 1: 'Winds approach coast'. Step 2 shows 'Winds pushed upwards' onto the 'Windward side' of the 'Mountains'. Step 3 is when 'Moist air rises and cools', leading to step 4: 'Clouds form'. In step 5, 'Rain falls' over the mountain's peak and windward side. Following this, step 6 shows 'Dry air continues over mountain' down the 'Leeward side'. Finally, in step 7, 'Dry winds reach inland areas', creating an 'Inland' 'Rain-shadow desert'.
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The chart illustrates a 7 step process in the formation of a specific kind of desert, known as a rain-shadow desert.
Overall, the formation of a rain-shadow desert requires 3 main features; the sea, inland areas and finally mountains in the middle.The wind goes through most of the different stages of the process on the windward side, but only two occur on the leeward side.
The process starts with winds approching the cost from the sea, the wind is then pushed upwards by the mountains, after the moist air rises it the forms clouds, which eventually leads to rain fall. All of this takes place on the windward side of the mountains.
Dry air continues over the mountains. As the air travels down the leeward side of the mountains, it turns to dry winds by the time it reaches the inland areas, and that is how a rain-shadow desert is formed. The distance between the sea and inlands, occuppied by the mountains spans over throusands of kilometers.
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