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High up on the mountains, there is less air above us. It is the air that causes the pressure.
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Would you expect the the pressure exerted by water to be greater or less than the pressure exerted by the same amount of air?
water is more dense than air and it has atmospheric pressure also pushing down on it to make it have greater pressure than air.
What is the relation between pressure in atmosphere and pressure?
Atmospheric pressure is the surrounding pressure around us. We live in the atmosphere and treat the atmospheric pressure as the base pressure. A pressure gauge would read 0 at atmospheric pressure. When we define the pressure in scientific way of absolute pressure, we need to add up an atmospheric pressure to the measured pressure.
What is gauze pressure?
If you mean "guage pressure," it is the pressure of a fluid minus the atmospheric pressure.
What is the Difference between Dynamic pressure and static pressure?
The main difference of static pressure and dynamic pressure is:- static pressure is exerted by fluid at rest but dynamic pressure is pressure exerted by fluid in motion.
Which is true about intrapulmonary pressure and intrapleural pressure?
Intrapulmonary pressure will equalize to atmospheric pressure during a breathing cycle, but intrapleural pressure should always be less than atmospheric pressure.
What are some geographic features of South America?
Amoz river and moutanins
In what state are the green moutanins located?
If you were to travel by air plane from Sacramento, California to Denver, Colorado, what states would you probably fly over
What does low pressure over land and high pressure over water form?
a land breeeze
What is the air pressure on land?
14.7 Psi
When does a breeze occur?
Land breezes occur during the night when the land looses heat and the ocean or body of water is warmer. The warm water air becomes less dense and rises (low pressure) while the air above land is cold so it sinks (high pressure) since air travels from high pressure to low pressure, the high pressure from land goes to the water mass. Winds are named for the origin, so it is called a land breeze.
When coastal land is warmer than the nearby water what type of breeze forms?
Along Coastlines, warmer air relates to lower air pressure, thus air flows from the higher-pressure, cooler setting into the area of lower air pressure. If the land is warmer, it has lower air pressure. Air over the sea would therefore be cooler and thus have higher atmospheric pressure, and the air will naturally from from the higher pressure (in this case, from over the ocean) to the lower pressure (over the warmer land).So you get a wind from the water onto the land, or a sea breeze.
The mountain building process in which land of land bend and buckle to release pressure?
doming
Explain why nighttime land breezes occur in areas close to the ocean?
The air pressure decreases at night. This rising air creates a warm low on the ocean's surface. Cool air collects on the surface, forming a high pressure area. Due to a loss of heat, a low pressure forms above the land. A high pressure zone forms as the cooler land further cools the air just above the land. Winds that are aloft move from ocean to land. The surface winds will flow from high to low pressure and create a land breeze.
What causes low pressure over the land during the day?
Low pressure over the land during the day is due to the low pressure forming at the intertropical convergence zone. This is apart of the Hadley cell circulation.
Would air pressure be greater over the ocean or over land?
Early in the day, the land is quite cold as it has lost its heat overnight. Therefore it is more dense and has a greater air pressure. However, as the day progresses, the air above the land will be very hot, less dense, and hence have a lower pressure. As a result, the air above the ocean has a greater air pressure later in the day.
Where is the high pressure on sea breeze?
It is above the land
How land breezes occur?
Land breezes occur when the ocean surface is warmer than the adjacent land. This can occur at night, as the land cools faster than the water. The wamer water causes the air above it to rise, while air sinks over the cooler land. This creates areas of low and high pressure respectively. The air will blow from the high pressure to the low pressure, or, in other words, from the land to the ocean. This creates a land breeze.
