Wouls it be easier to drink water with a straw on top of Mount Everest or at the foot? Explain.?

Question

Wouls it be easier to drink water with a straw on top of Mount Everest or at the foot? Explain.?

Answer 1

At zero altitude.

  Air pressure is so low at the top of mount Everest that the water would boil in the straw before it reached the top.

  If the straw was over 16 ft tall on the ground the same effect would cause it to boil  and you couldn't suck it to the top of the straw.

Answer 2

At the foot of the mountain.  Ignoring the likelihood of freezing, bringing a liquid up through a straw requires air pressure to push the liquid into and up the straw.  The liquid is not pulled up the straw by your mouth, but pushed up by the now greater outside air pressure.  Thus the greater the air pressure (which it would be at the foot of Everest), the easier it is to drink through a straw.

Answer 3

If itsa school question, then on top the force of gravity is less and therefore easier to pull from the straw, But yes the liquid would be frozen, and you;d be shivering and or muscles would be weaker to sip from the straw...

Answer 4

foot cause it is sooooooo lot easier

Answer 5

well. it depends on your current location. if you are already on top of Mount Everest and suddenly decides to drink with a straw, i think it is easier than you go down first. lol!!

Answer 6

At the foot of Mount Everest, because then you don't actually have to climb it. Plus, all the the water will be frozen at the top if you do get there.

Answer 7

i concur with cyswxman.