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A mountain rises 3000 m above a foot at sea level where the temperature is 30 °C. What is the temperature at the summit, and does ice form?
Total fall = 3000 ÷ 150 =20 °C.
Summit temperature = 30 − 20 =10 °C.
No ice forms, because 10 °C is above the freezing point — ice needs 0 °C or below.
Why is the daily temperature range larger in the desert than on the coast? — Because water gains and loses heat slowly and moderates the coast, while dry continental air heats fast by day and cools fast by night.
Give the reason: snow falls on Mount Kenya although it lies near the equator. — The lapse rate of 1 °C per 150 m lowers the summit temperature below freezing despite the equatorial latitude.
A wind blowing from 30° N toward the equator is deflected which way? — To theright(Northern Hemisphere), by Coriolis' law.
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