In a beaker a compartment a has 25% glucose solution and compartment b has 5% glu glucose solution. the membrane is permeable to the solvent but not to the solute. what transport mechanism causes water to move from a to

Answer is: osmotic pressure.

The direction of osmotic pressure is always from the side with the lower concentration of solute to the side with the higher concentration, in this example, from solution b (5% glucose) to solution b (25% glucose).

Osmotic pressure, alongside the vapor pressure depression, freezing point depression and the boiling point elevation are the colligative properties od solution.

a rain shadow is a dry region of land on the side that is protected against the prevailing winds of a mountain range. the prevailing winds are the winds that occur most of the time in a particular place of the earth

prevailing winds carry air toward the mountain range. as the air rises up over a mountain range, the air cools, water vapor condenses, and clouds form. on this side of the mountains, called the windward side, precipitation falls in the form of  rain  or snow. this dry air produces a  rain shadow.