As you increase in elevation, there is less air above you thus the pressure decreases. As the pressure decreases, air molecules spread out further (i.e. air expands) and the temperature decreases. If the humidity is at 100 percent (because it's snowing), the temperature decreases more slowly with height.
Answer-kinetic energy. The human experience of sound is caused by vibrations. The object creating the sound creates waves of movement through a medium, like air, until it reaches our eardrums, which then vibrate and our brain interprets that as sound. Here are some examples of sound energy:
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