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Why does temperature decrease with higher altitude?
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Why does temperature decrease with higher altitude?

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It decreases because the sunlight rays don't directly hit the upper and lower part of the Earth that's why the heat doesn't took control of the surface temperature so it's colder than in the tropical whose being directly spotted by sun rays
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