Mountain ranges disrupt the idealized pattern of global precipitation by promoting convection and by forcing ____
a. evaporation
b. conduction
c. orographic uplift
d. air to rise along their leeward slopes
e. air to rise along their eastern slopes
ANSWER: c
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