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Because warm air has more energy and rises, so slides over the cold air.
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Does plastic sink or float in oil?
A plastic always sink in oil like a plastic bottle will always float in oil.
Why does got air rise and cold air sink?
Hot air is lighter while cold air is heavier. This results in warm or hot air rising and cool or cold air falls.
Convection currents form when warm air rises and cold air sinks What causes the warm air to rise and the cold air to sink?
a difference in density
Convection currents form when warm air rises and cold air sinks. What causes the warm air to rise and the cold air to sink?
a deference in density
When two continental plates collide why doesn't one sink?
In a way one does, however instead of sinking it stoops below forming volcanoes. And you would not sink due to the speed of the tectonic plates colliding
When cold water sinks where does it go?
Water is most dense at 4° C and so because water at cold temperatures has a greater mass per volume it will sink below warmer water.
Why does oceanic rock always sink below continental rock?
subduction
Why doesn't a warm air mass under a cold air mass at a warm front?
Warm air is lighter than cold air, that means that warm air will rise and the cold air will sink.
Will cold water sink or swim?
SiNk
If a mass of ocean water is cold and salty what will it where on earth's surface is this event common?
the salt will sink to the ocean floor and it happens at the poles.
Hot air rises cold air sink?
technically hot air does not really rise it is the cold air that sinks below it because it is more dense.
What do you call a basement sink?
just a sink Below surface (grade) sink
What is dry cold?
dry cold is a cold that come in yr sink
Will a camera sink in quicksand?
Anything with weight and mass will sink in quicksand.
If a block of ice has the density of 0.97gcm3 how much of it will sink below the water?
97% will sink below the water
When warm air rises cold air will what?
The cold air will sink.
Does cold rise and heat sink?
No, cold sinks and heat rises.
