If heat goes up then why is there snow up on mountains???

Question

Please give a full scientific explanation.

Answer 1

The higher you go, the less dense is the air (it is harder to breathe up high than down low.  That's why some fighter pilots have to wear oxygen masks).

Air that is less dense makes it harder to hold heat (less dense = fewer molecules to heat up), so it gets colder as you go higher.

Heat energy ALWAYS travels from hot to cold, so the heat from the hot air gets transferred to the cold air, and eventually the heat is "radiated" off into space.

Answer 2

Mountains with snow on the top are at high elevations. The higher in the atmosphere you go, the cooler the tempertaure is and the air becomes less dense.

Answer 3

as you go up the temp drops.

Answer 4

It's because the higher you get into the atmosphere, the cooler the air get, allowing for some mountains to have snow year round.

Answer 5

air thins at higher atmosphere so once the altitude is around 4,000 the temperatures drops about 6 degrees from see level and is 2 degrees for ever 1000 feet (or something to that effect).

layman's terms:

higher altitude-> aim is thinner -> air is colder -> temperature drops

btw arizona mountains suck (from experience)