the aircontains 20.93% oxygen-whether you are swimming in the Dead Sea in Israel (1,369 feet or 417 meters below sea level) or standing on top of Mount Everest in Nepal (29,035 feet or 8,850 meters above sea level). the barometric pressure is lower the higher in altitude you go so the pressure of oxygen is lower therefore its harder for your lungs to absorb the oxygen.
2.66666666667 is the decimal of oxygen in the air
21%
The percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere does not change with altitude, so it is about 21% at 10 000 feet. What does change is the pressure. This declines with altitude. At sea level the air pressure is about 101 kPa (kilopascals). Oxygen accounts for 21% of this so the oxygen pressure is 19.6 kPa. This means that there are less oxygen molecules in the same volume of air at higher altitudes. At 10000 feet the oxygen pressure drops to 7.2 kPa, which is roughly one third of the pressure at sea level. For an online calculator of oxygen levels at different altitudes see: http://www.altitude.org/calculators/oxygencalculator/oxygencalculator.htm This site also lets you convert between kilopascals and mm Hg. For further information about the effects of altitude see: http://anthro.palomar.edu/adapt/adapt_3.htm http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/317/7165/1063
The earth's atmosphere at sea level.
the elevation of sea level is 0 degrees.
Sea level oxygen is around 21% and Denver has about 18% available oxygen.
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The amount of oxygen you get with every breath at the peak of Everest is about 1/4 of what you get at sea level. At sea level, oxygen is about 21% of the gas you breathe. I don't know if that percentage changes with altitude.
At sea level everywhere on the Earth oxygen makes up about 20% of the atmosphere.
2.66666666667 is the decimal of oxygen in the air
At the top of Mount Everest, the percentage of oxygen in the air is the same as that at sea level (about 21% oxygen). However, atmospheric pressure decreases as altitude increases, and the atmospheric pressure at the summit of Everest is 33% that of sea level.Therefore, there is 66% less oxygen than there is at sea level.
At the summit of Mount Everest there is approximately 33% of the oxygen that is available at sea level.
Answer: Because the percentage of oxygen in the air is not as much as it is at sea level. When higher altitude is attained, oxygen levels drop. Hope this helps.
well.logically it just makes sense that since there is less oxygen above sea level (mt Everest roughly 1/3 of the oxygen at sea level) that there would be more oxygen below sea level. note: this is completely hypothetical and has no scientific backing whatsoever
21%
Less oxygen
no; oyxgen levels are the amount of oxygen in the air where as sea level is a reference point for people to get a good idea of how tall of how low something is