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kow [346]
3 years ago
8

Why it is colder at the top of the mountain than it is at the bottom of the mountain even though heat rises?

Biology
1 answer:
Aleksandr [31]3 years ago
4 0
It is colder, BECAUSE:

As we go up in the atmosphere, air pressure continually becomes less. That means the rising<span> air is expanding. And a characteristic of any gas is that it is cooled by expansion. So the draft of warm air that starts </span>rising<span> from the earth's surface continually cools itself as it </span>rises<span>.
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