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Most often, the air at higher elevations is cooler than the air at lower
elevations. The act of your climbing the mountain has no effect on it.
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As you climb higher up a mountain does the air get hotter or colder?
As you climb a mountain the air gets colder.
Why does it get colder as you go up a mountain?
u dont no
Why is the climate colder as you go up a mountain?
Because of the altitude.
What makes mercury in a thermometer go up and down?
Change in temperature is what cause the Mercury to expand up (hotter) or shrink down (colder).
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.
Why the does the climate become colder and dryer as you climb up a mountain?
because space is cold so the higher you go the colder it gets
How do interactions of temperature and humidity lead to precipitation?
because the moisture from the humidity rises up because of evaporation and the temperatur gets hotter and hotter or it can ge colder and colder and it will stat to rain
Would you get hotter or colder as you went higher up in the atmosphere?
Upto Ozon Layer it get colder and then start increasing the temperature.......
Why is it always colder up a mountain?
As you go up the mountain,the altitude increases.Hence the temperature drops by 1 degree for every 166m increase in height(approximately) So it is cold.
What happens to air temperature as you go up mountain?
It decreases because as you move up in altitude the air becomes thinner making it colder.
Why is it that when you go up a mountain you get colder because your near to the sun?
because air pressure decreases as altitude increases. As air rises, the pressure decreases. It is the lower pressure at higher altitude that causes temperature to be colder on the top of a mountain compared to sea level.
What is vertical climate?
A vertical climate a climate affected by altitude (usually found on a mountain). One example is that on a mountain the higher up you go the colder the climate (or temperature) is.
