A T M O S P H E R I

C P R E S S U R E
M A L I H A A N TA R A 8 G
 • The air around us has weight, and it presses
against everything it touches. That pressure is
called atmospheric pressure, or air pressure. It
is the force exerted on a surface by the air
above it as gravity pulls it to Earth.
• Atmospheric pressure is commonly measured
with a barometer. In a barometer, a column
of mercury in a glass tube rises or falls as the
weight of the
What is atmosphere changes. Meteorologists describe
the atmospheric pressure by how high the
atmospheric mercury rises.
• Atmospheric pressure drops
pressure? as altitude increases.
 DRINKING WITH A STRAW
When you drink from a straw, you create a little
space of low pressure inside your mouth and in
the top of the straw. Then the air outside the
straw pushes down on the surface of the drink
and forces the liquid up through the straw and
into your mouth.

FILLING A SYRINGE
When the piston of the syringe is pushed, the
sit gushes in and while we dip the same into the
liquid, the pressure increases
thereby filling the same. The pressure inside
decreases and due to that the liquid medicine
rushes into the syringe.
 EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE

ON HUMAN BODY~ ON THE EARTH'S SURFACE~

Our bodies are unable to adjust Atmospheric pressure is an
quickly to changes in indicator of weather. When a
atmospheric pressure.  low-pressure system moves into
an area, it usually leads to
cloudiness, wind, and
If we travel to high altitudes and precipitation.
the drop in pressure is too great,  High-pressure systems usually
we may suffer from a condition lead to fair, calm weather. A
called altitude sickness.  barometer
measures atmospheric pressure,
which is also called barometric
pressure.