What is the name of the hot, dry wind that blows from the Sahara across the Mediterranean?
Correct answer: C. The Sirocco
- A. The Foehn
- B. The Mistral
- C. The Sirocco
- D. The Bora
Explanation
The Sirocco carries hot, dry Saharan air northward across the Mediterranean into southern Europe.
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