The majority of the smaller Pacific islands lying in the tropics are influenced by the easterly _______ that bring abundant precipitation for tropical rain forest climate and biome types

a. trade winds
b. doldrums
c. frontal winds
d. noreasters
e. tropical depressions


A

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