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Because air pressure (and water pressure) decrease the farther you get from the earth's center of gravity.
At high altitudes, such as on Mount Everest there is less air above you. This means that the density and pressure of air decreases as altitude increases. Each intake of air on Mount Everest has only one-third of the gas molecules-including oxygen-that would be present at sea level.
Yes, with the right air pressure. On top of Mount Everest water boils at about 63 degrees Celsius.
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Because air pressure (and water pressure) decrease the farther you get from the earth's center of gravity.
jenny is experiencing more air pressure
The higher you are in the atmosphere, the lower the air pressure. Seeing that the top of a mountain is quite high, the air pressure is low; the air is thinner. This is why you need oxygen tanks to reach the top of Mount Everest
At high altitudes, such as on Mount Everest there is less air above you. This means that the density and pressure of air decreases as altitude increases. Each intake of air on Mount Everest has only one-third of the gas molecules-including oxygen-that would be present at sea level.
Because of the air pressure being low
At high altitudes, such as on Mount Everest there is less air above you. This means that the density and pressure of air decreases as altitude increases. Each intake of air on Mount Everest has only one-third of the gas molecules-including oxygen-that would be present at sea level.
Air presure at sea level is 101.325 Kilopascals Air pressure on the top of Everst is 33.7 Kilopascals
The air pressure at the top of Mount Everest is low pressure. At high altitudes, such as on Mount Everest there is less air above you. This means that the density and pressure of air decreases as altitude increases. Each intake of air on Mount Everest has only one-third of the gas molecules-including oxygen-that would be present at sea level.
There are many possible trivia questions that one could make about Mount McKinley. A few of these include: how high is Mount McKinley? (20,320 feet), how cold does it get at the top? (100 below zero), and who was the first to climb it? (Hudson Stuck).
The atmospheric pressure is caused by the weight of the air on top of us. At the top of mount Everest, there is less air above the exhausted climber (because a lot of the air is below). Less air, less weight, less pressure.
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.
There is more atmospheric pressure in the Sahara Desert. The number of air molecules around us decrease as we go higher into the atmosphere, which also causes the air pressure to decrease. Since the Sahara Desert is closer to sea level than Mount Everest is, there are more air molecules and more pressure there.