Air pressure decreases as you move higher in the atmosphere. Air, just like any form of matter has mass, and when affected by earth's gravity, weight. The weight of air is pushing down on you with a force of 1 atmosphere at sea level. As you increase elevation the air pressure is reduced because there is less air to push down on you. Just like air, water pressure increases as you increase your depth in it, or any fluid.
As you "go up" to higher altitudes, atmospheric pressure decreases exponentially.
This is easiest to grasp if you think about the atmosphere as a big stack of books, starting from the ground and going right up into space. The book at the top (highest altitude) is only going to feel the downward weight of its own mass (not very much)... where as the book way down at the bottom of the stack feels its weight plus the weight of ALL of the other books pressing down upon it!
For the atmosphere, instead of books you have an endless amount of air molecules resting on each other and pushing the lower molecules down. The lower you are, the more molecules of air are pushing down on you. The more molecules pushing down on you, the more atmospheric pressure you experience.
Air pressure decreases as you get higher in altitude.
The air pressure Decreasee, as you go higher up into the atmosphere!
As you go higher into the atmosphere, the air pressure gets lower and lower and air molecules get farther apart.
As you go higher in altitude, the air pressure decreases. Simply because as you go up, there is less and less air on top of you.
The further away from the Earth's surface you go - the lower the atmospheric pressure is.
The air pressure decreases
it gets higher becaus ethe higher you go the more pressure is on you i think
The higher you go in the atmosphere the lower the air pressure becomes...
i think a valley does because when you climb a mountain the air pressure decreases the higher you go.
The air pressure rises. When you go higher it lowers. That's why it gets harder to breathe as you elevate.
No, air pressure decreases with increasing elevation. This is because air pressure is due to the weight of the column of air above where you are. The higher you go, the less air there is above you, so the less the weight of that column of air and the lower the air pressure.
Air pressure decreases as you go higher.
The air is thinner the higher you go.
The air is thinner the higher you go.
The air pressure decreases the higher you go. This the reason that climbers hoping to reach the top of Mount Everest, carry air cylinders as the air is so thin.
Air pressure starts to go away
Air pressure is simply the weight of the air above you. Air pressure falls with height because the higher you go up, the less air there is above you to weigh down on you.
The lower you go into the sea level, the greater the air pressure. The higher you go above the sea level, the lower the air pressure.
Inversely with altitude, the higher up you go the less air pressure
the air pressure will increase
The higher up you go in elevation the thinner the air around you becomes making it hard to breathe for many people.
It drecrease
Air pressure is caused by the weight of all the air stacked up above you. The higher you go, the less air there is above you, so the pressure is lower.