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A friend says that temperature increases as altitude increases because you're moving closer to the sun. Is this true? Explain

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Answer: False

Step-by-step explanation:

Cuz the higher you go the more dense the air will be. For an example it is harder to breath in a plane than on the earth.

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The answer is:

No this is false.

The explanation:

The temperature will decrease when the altitude increase, for example when we go to the top of a mountain so the temperature will decrease 1 °C for each 100 m . and this because the density of the thermosphere is very low that makes few gas particles will hit the human body to transfer the energy heat to the skin of the human. So you will feel cold.

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