eli5 How are guns accurate if their sights are so high?

Question

Take the ak for exemple, the front sight is like 4 centimeters above the barrel, how is that accurate? Do you just have to compensate for that? Also aplies to scopes, some of the sight quite high on the gun

Edit: i already know they make arcs because of gravity and the angle of the barrel

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Answer 1

The bullet has weight. Gravity says it must go down. The sight takes that into consideration. If you are shooting further distances you adjust the sight accordingly.