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Why does pressure drop as you travel upward from earth surface?
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∙ 10y ago
Air pressure is caused by the weight of the atmosphere above an object. When one goes higher, there is less air above and so the pressure drops.
Keely Brakus
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∙ 14y agoAir pressure is caused by the weight of the atmosphere above an object. When one goes higher, there is less air above and so the pressure drops.
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What causes the air pressure drop as you travel upward from earth's surface?
Pressure is the weight of air column on unit area. As you go upward, this air column gets shorter, its weight gets less, hence air pressure gets lower.
Why does the pressure drop as you travel upward from earth's surface?
Air pressure is caused by the weight of the atmosphere above an object. When one goes higher, there is less air above and so the pressure drops.
How does pressure changes as you go from the surface to the center of the earth?
As you travel from the surface to the center of the Earth, pressure will increase enormously, because of the increasing weight of what is above you.
Sound will travel fastest in air at?
The speed of sound increases with pressure, so close to the Earth's surface.
Seismic waves travel through?
The Surface Of The Earth (The Ground) and though the centre of the Earth. Hey are pressure waves like sound waves.
Why does Magma tends to rise toward the Earth's surface?
Magma rises from the asthenosphere to the surface of the Earth. After it reaches temperature upward to 1000 degrees Fahrenheit, the magma starts to rise. Gases also aid in pushing the magma toward the surface, along with the tremendous pressure from the depth at which it originates.
How does atmospheric pressure change as you move away from the surface of earth?
Air pressure decreases as you move away from Earth's surface.
What kind of waves can travel through earth and along earths surface?
The wave that can travel through earth and along earths surface is a SEISMIC wave.
Does a surface wave go through the body of the earth or along the surface?
Surface waves (as the name suggests) travel along Earth's surface. Seismic waves that travel through earth's interior are known instead as body waves.
Why fountain pen overflow in space?
The pressure in the bulb of the fountain pen is 1 atmosphere as it is loaded with ink on the surface of earth. As we travel away from earth the pressure drops, so in the space where pressure is subatmospheric, the ink flows out,from inside out as favoured by the pressure gradient. Padmanbahan Raghu, INDIA
What is a stratospohere?
The stratosphere is a layer of Earth's atmosphere. The stratosphere is the second layer, as one moves upward from Earth's surface, of the atmosphere.
What is the Earth's surface pressure?
'''69 to 99'''
