Depth. To ascend is to go up, and to descend is go down. We measure the height of things above the ground and the depth of things below the ground.
Temperature and Pressure.
She would descend down the stairs at midnight.
Descend is a verb.
Depth
Fall-Rise Descend- Ascend
I descend down the stairs.
The past tense of descend is descended.
Among other things, most current Americans descend from Western European immigrants.
The hikers began their descent down the steep mountain trail as the sun started to set.
The plane is about to descend to a lower altitude.
No. They descend directly from the Sage of the Six Paths.