how would altitude affect the climate driving from kansas to the rocky mountains?

Question

i need this for a report and can not figure it out

Answer 1

It's a great drive. Kansas is the plains and as you enter Colorado you go through the foothills (higher). When you stopped and looked back you could just see forever. I didn't notice any change in the weather. You're approaching the mountains on their dry side. The neatest thing was being very hot and then driving up a mountain. There would be snow and cold. Then we would go down, then up. That was interesting. I went north to Yellowstone Park-much higher-northern Wyoming at the Montana border. In August there it was 44 degrees at night and 70's during the day-so much colder than Kansas. Hope this helps.

Answer 2

well the altitude increases, so your car ends up getting less horsepower. someone told me that up here in denver your horsepower is about 20% less than it normally is (or how the car company says) but i dont know he might just be insane. also you get less gas milege, i know that when i drive in the mountains i can floor it and my car wont accelerate at all because of the steep hills and such. i dont know what you mean by climate though, but in the rockys its colder and drier than in kansas. so yeah as you increase in altitude, it become colder and drier, the biome up there is mostly tundra, especially up in the higher mounts. hope that helped!