Use information from the map below and kh5wledge about climates to place the following locations in order from most precipitation to least precipitation. Precipitation United States Average annual precip. (in.) 0-10 10-20 20-30 30-40 40-60 60-100 >100 Hawaii (varies from 16 to 400 in.) Alaska 1 of 2 ©VDL 1 northeastern section of the United States southeastern section of the United States northern half of Alaska 2)

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