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What factor causes a mountaintop in a warm region to be covered with snow?
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Temperature decreases with altitude because pressure decreases. This is the primary reason you can get snow at low latitudes but at high elevations. At elevations above 15-20,000 feet, you can even have glaciers, which is essentially snow that falls and doesn't melt.
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