Multiple Choice
The mountains in Chile and Argentina are not at high risk of avalanches because
A) they are in a warm, equatorial region.
B) they lie east of the Atacama desert and receive little snowfall.
C) they lie west of the Atacama desert and receive little snowfall.
D) they are near the Pacific Ocean.
E) they are too steep.
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