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How does air pressure affect the breathing of people living in the mountins?
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∙ 13y ago
Because there is less air at higher altitude, there is less oxygen available. A person unaccustomed to the deficiency would eventually feel lightheaded from lack of oxygen, and have trouble breathing as their lungs tried to fill up more than they could.
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∙ 15y ago
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∙ 14y agoThere is less air in the ozone layer so air slowly decreases. ---- There's less oxygen at high altitudes like on Mount Everest (still a far way from the ozone layer) and the body's physiological response is to speed up breathing. For people who have climbed Mount Everest without oxygen tanks, they describe breathing as exhausting as they have to draw breaths at incredibly high frequencies and they exhaust their diaphragms like any other muscle.
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∙ 13y agoThe farther one gets from sea level, the less air is present, much like gravity. The air gets thinner as you climb to higher elevations and thus it becomes harder to breathe.
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∙ 10y agoAir becomes less dense at higher altitude so people will breath more often in order to intake more oxygen as their blood's pH lowers.
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∙ 8y agoThe air pressure decreases
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