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Given the following cities and their elevations, which list ranks these cities in order from highest surface pressure to lowest surface pressure? Denver, Colorado at 1,609 m (5,280 ft) Panama City, Florida at 2 m (7 ft) El Aguilar, Argentina at 4895 m (16,059 ft)

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Answer:

Panama city, Denver, and El Aguilar

Step-by-step explanation:

The surface pressure is the pressure existing within the atmosphere of the earth. This measure depends greatly on altitude. The greater the altitude of a surface, the lower its atmospheric pressure gets. In Panama City, we are almost at sea level.

From that point upwards, atmospheric pressure decreases at a rate of 1.2 kPa every 100 mt. Therefore, El Aguilar is the location where the surface pressure is lower.

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