is it true that the higher it goes the cooler it becomes?
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Yes. The temperature drops 1 degree Fahrenheit for every 1000 feet you go up.
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I don't really understand what your question is.  In the first place, heat always flows from a warmer object to a cooler one.  That maximizes the number of possible arrangements of energy quanta, leading to an increased entropy.
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Yes, heat does rise. But, it expands into lower pressure and undergoes what is called 'adiabatic cooling', just like a spray can feels cold when you release pressure. Dry air cools 5.4'F for every 1,000 feet it rises. Thats more than 20'F of cooling for a 4,000 foot mountain, enoough to bring snow.  Cold air warms as it sinks for the same reason, which can create perfect winter days.\n\nI hope this helps! Let me know!
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Air is more dense when cold.
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When a Liquid evaporates it takes the heat of the surroundings to reach its Vapourisation State ... Thus making you fell cooler
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It got colder then warmer.
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No.\nThe computer works better when it is warm.\nIt's a hardware thing.
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The higher you go the thinner the air, if there is less air then there is less mass to hold the heat from the sun.
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Got to be honest. I became more and more confused about a topic that I used to understand so well with that first response. Although a lot of that is facts, it is overcomplicated at some parts and tough to get a hold on what is actually being described. No disrespect to rizzo though, I realise that everything he wrote is correct so he knows what he's talking about, I just think it would be hard for anyone else to.\n\nMaybe this description will be slightly less dizzying:\n\nAll heat is from the sun. Most of what comes from the sun is short-wave radiation, from 400nm down. Air is not heated very much from the sun, but the ground is. This is because the ground can absorb the short-wave incoming radiation, air cannot (well, only a little bit). The air is mostly heated by the longer-wave radiation that comes from the ground when it gets heated up, which heats the water molecules in the air (that's why humid regions get hotter than dry regions). \n\n*Note: Extremely dry air can be heated too, but that requires continuous exposer to sunlight. As soon as the sun is gone, it gets cold fast. Also it gets colder faster with altitude in dry regions.*\n\nAnyways. Up high, on top of being farther away from the ground, there is also less water molecules to absorb heat (and less molecules total to be heated up at all. So it absorbs less radiation. That is why it is colder. Simple. \n\nNo "adiabatic" mumbo jumbo. But adiabatic cooling is also simple. When air rises, the pressure on it decreases and it expands. The heat will be spread out over more volume, so the air will cool. This is the more complicated reason why the farther away from the ground you get, the colder the air is.\n\nAlso, there is something called an inversion. In this case, the air actually gets hotter as you go up. This happens when a warm air mass is forced up over a denser cold air mass because it is lighter. When this happens, the air is stable (it won't rise). This can result in people getting to choke on their own pollution for a couple of days because the crap they spew up in the air won't rise anymore. It's poetic.
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Like everyone else said, it makes the drink cooler. However, this is because heat is transferred in an attempt to achieve equilibrium. In this case, the equilibrium would be between the temperature of the ice and that of the drink. Because the average temperature of the drink is higher than that of the ice, heat flows out of the drink and into the ice, slowly levelling the temperature.
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Well, you are lower, there is more "head" above you, more air piled directly above you.  Same thing as going deep in the ocean, except you are going deep in air, so the pressure does not go up as fast as if it was water, but it WILL go up.
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no.\nsound waves travel faster in warm temperatures than in colder ones.\nWhile sound does travel faster in warm air, it doesn't necessarily travel farther. If sound is traveling over a warm area, the temperature normally decreases with increased height, thus the top part of the horizontally traveling sound wave will propagate slower than the lower part. This causes an upward refraction of the sound, bending it away from the ground. However, over a cold area, such as a frozen lake, the upper air may actually be warmer than the lower layer of air. This causes the sound wave to travel faster in the upper region resulting in refraction of the sound towards (along) the ground. And the sound will "travel" farther over the cold surface than over the warm surface.
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it doesnt, however the energy is lost faster in hot water than in cooler water.  The rate at which all water freezes is the same.
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it is weaker the higher you go
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Yep.  If you put a 1000 ton boat in the ocean, the level rises just as if you put 1000 tons of salt water in the ocean.  Don't try to measure it though.
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As you go up in altitude, the air does get cooler since it's less dense, and can therefore retain less heat.  However, this heat loss is 2 degrees Celcius per 1000 feet.  So, for the height of a three story house, at about 35 feet, the cooling effect would be .07 of a degree.  Hardly enough to notice.  You have to go much higher than your house to notice any cooling effect.  The air near the surface is constantly in motion, and you can't measure differences over such a short scale.\n\nAnyway, as others have stated, hot air rises, and unless you have a large vent on your top floor, it will collect there and heat the upper floors.
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Besides the loss of heat due to the difference with room temperature, we can also check how water specific heat behaves with temperature. \nThe specific heat is the amount of heat required to change a unit mass of a substance by one degree in temperature. This specific heat increases with temperature, so this indicates us that water at a higher temperature needs a bit more energy to rise 1º than water at lower temperature.\n\nSo the answer is yes, it will take more time to rise from 90º to 100º because of two reasons:\n1- There is more loss of heat in the water at 90º than water at 10º.\n2- Specific heat is higher in water at 90º than water at 10º.