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It decreases because you keep getting farther and farther away from the earth's core. The earth's core is very hot. Also, there are less and less gases as you go up which makes less friction, and friction creates heat, so it gets colder when they have more room to move around and aren't constantly bumping into eachother. (The molecules.) Those would be my best answers. :) JIVVER97
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Omolara Oladimeji
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∙ 16y agoAs you go upwards, air pressure lowers, meaning that there is less air to hold heat or insulate.
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∙ 14y agoNo. Just the opposite. Without the Sun rays radiating heat from the atmosphere it gets very cold.
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∙ 12y agoAs you go up in elevation, the air gets thinner so the air can't hold as much heat as it did down at sea level.
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∙ 11y agothis is due to the reduction in the atmospheric air and therefore at higher elevations the heat holding capacity is reduced
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∙ 14y agoThe atmospheric temperature gradient.
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Why is basement cooler than other rooms?
The basement is underground so the sun's heat does not reach it, but probably its just that above ground is warmer rather than below ground is cooler.
Why does the liquid in thermometer go up the tube when it gets hotter?
Heat causes mercury in the thermometer to expand, where as when it is cooled, it contracts.
What happens to pressure and temperature as depth decreases?
Temperature increases due to the fact that the center of the earth is magma. No humans or machine could actually get close enough to it to be able to tell. This is why high mountain tops are generally colder then sea level.
What happens to the temperature as you go up in elevation?
The temperature gets colder as you go upward in the troposphere. Light from the Sun heats the ground. The warm ground gives off the heat as infrared "light". The IR energy heats the troposphere. The lowest part of the troposphere is the warmest because it is closest to the ground, where the heat is coming from.
What is the controlled variable between oil and water?
At an air pressure equal to that at sea level...water turns from a liquid to a gas at 212 degrees Fahrenheit. Plus or minus a couple of degrees this is probably the answer your looking for. If you turn the temperature up higher on the pot of water, the temperature of the boiling water will not get any hotter then when it first started boiling. The higher you go in altitude (on top of a mountain) the lower the boiling temperature gets but the boiling point of the water will still stay at the same temperature even if you blast it with a flame thrower.
How does height effect temperature of a place?
When you go higher up it gets colder. Then the lower you go it gets hotter because the closer you are to the inner core the hotter it gets.
Does the resistance go higher or lower when a thermistor gets hot?
the therminster will get hotter when the resistance is lowed
How does the mantle change as you go deeper into the Earth's interior?
The deeper into the Earth you go it gets hotter and hotter.
What is the relationship between how deep you go in the Earth and how hot it gets?
the deeper you go the hotter it gets
The increase in temperature with depth in the Earth is called what?
It is called the geothermal gradient, which means that the closer to the mantel or core (underground) you go, the hotter it gets.
How does it get colder when you get to the crust of the earth?
It doesn't, it gets hotter as you go inside the earth
What causes the pressure to increases as you go deeper below the crust?
temperature gets hotter
What causes the pressure to increase as you go deeper below the crust?
temperature gets hotter
Is it cold in the center below the earth's surface?
its hot and the deeper you go the hotter it gets
Why hill stations or highlands are cold As we go up it should get hotter because the sun gets closer?
Highlands grow cooler as the height increases because of the Lower pressure at higher altitudes.
In general it gets hotter when you go north or south?
it depends where you are in the world like Antarctica or Greenland
Why doesn't water temperature go any higher when on a hotplate?
Once water reaches its boiling point (100 degrees Celsius), the water will not get hotter. Instead, it will invest the extra energy it gets from the hotplate into converting the water from liquid to gas. The water will evaporate instead of getting hotter.
