Air Pressure and Altitude

Where would you find the largest pressure?

• At the bottom of the ocean

• At the top of Mt Everest

Where is pressure the greatest on the dam?

• D
• C
• B
• A

True or false:

Liquid pressure depends on depth

• true

• false

What is altitude?

• how much something weighs
• the distance above sea level
• how big something is
• how far away something is

As you climb up a mountain what happens to the air pressure?

• decreases
• increases
• stays the same

What happens to the amount of oxygen molecules as altitude increases?

• fewer molecules
• more molecules
• same amount of molecules
• nothing happens to the molecules

Air pressure is greatest when near Earth's surface because?

• The air molecules are farther apart.
• The air molecules are closer together.
• Air molecules collide.
• Air molecules are tightly packed.

Altitude is greater __________.

• at the bottom of the mountain
• at the top of the mountain
• at the center of the mountain

Air pressure is greater _______.

• at the top of the mountain
• at the bottom of the mountain
• at the center of the mountain

Atmospheric pressure depends on .......

• mass

• density

• altitude

• magnitude

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6