Download Chapter 11.1 and 11.2 Guided Reading Answers

CHAPTER 11.1 AND 11.2 GUIDED
READING ANSWERS
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What is pressure?
 It refers to a force exerted on a surface.
 2. How is pressure and force related?
 PRESSURE decreases as the area over which
a FORCE is distributed increases.
 3. How does surface area affect pressure?
 The larger the area over which the force is
distributed, the less pressure is exerted.
 4. What is the equation for pressure?
 Pressure= Force/ Area
 5. What are two units for pressure?
 Pascal (Pa)
6. What is a fluid?
 A material that can easily flow.
 7. What is fluid pressure?
 All of the forces exerted by the individual particles in
a fluid combine to make up the pressure exerted by
the fluid.
 8. Why does air exert pressure?
 Air exerts pressure bc it has mass.
 9. What is the mass of a cubic meter of air?
 1.28kg
 10. Why does air pressure not crush your body?
 Your body contains fluids that exert outward
pressure. The weight of the atmosphere does not just
press down on your hand. It presses on your hand
from every direction.
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11. How is the pressure on your hand balanced?
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12. What happens when air pressure becomes
unbalanced?
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At higher elevation, there is less air above you and therefore
less air pressure. As your elevation increases, atmospheric
pressure decreases. Your ears pop to help stabilize the
pressure.
14. What happens when your elevation is increased?
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A change will take place in order to stabilize the pressure.
13. Why do your ears pop?
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The weight of the atmosphere does not just press down on
your hand. It presses on your hand from every direction. The
pressures balance each other.
Atmospheric pressure decreases.
15. What happens to water pressure as you descend?
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Water pressure increases.
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16. What is a barometer?
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17. What are 2 types of barometers?
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Mercury barometer and aneroid barometer. Aneroid barometer
is the one you usually see hanging on a wall.
18. What does decreasing pressure mean?
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An instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure.
A storm is on the way!
19. What does increasing pressure mean?
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A sign of fair weather!
Do Math practice 4 and 5 on page 378
 4. Find the area of a rectangle photo that is 20cm long
and 15 cm wide.
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20cm X 15xm = 300cm2
5. Which has a greater area: a square table that
measures 120cm X 120cm, or rectangular table that
measures 200cm X 90cm?
120cm X 120cm = 14,400cm2
 200cm X 90xm = 18,000cm2
 Therefore the rectangle has a greater area.
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11.2
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1. What is buoyancy?
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2. What is buoyant force?
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Buoyant force acts in the direction opposite to the force of
gravity, so it makes an object feel lighter.
4. When does an object sink?
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An upward force.
3. Why does it make objects feel lighter?
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The tendency of an object to float.
Force of weight > buoyant force.
5. When does an object float?
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Buoyant force > force of weight
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6. Who was Archimedes?
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7. What is Archimedes principal?
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A large object displaces more fluid than a small object. A
greater buoyant force acts on the larger object.
9. What is density?
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State that the buoyant force acting on a submerged object is
equal to the weight of the fluid the object displaces.
8. Why does a ship float?
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Greek mathematician
Mass per unit volume.
10. What is the equation for density?
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Density = mass/volume
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11. How does density help us tell if something will sink
or float?
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12. How do submarines change density?
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An object that is more dense than the fluid in which it is
immersed will sink. An object that is less dense than the fluid
in which it is immersed will float.
Changing the water level in the flotation tanks changes the
weight of the submarine. The submarine dives when its
weight is greater than the buoyant force and rises when its
weight is less.
13. Why does a helium balloon fly into the air?
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Helium gas is less dense than air.
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14. Calculate the density of each of the following:( show
all work)
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A. 252 mL of a solution with a mass of 500. g
D= m/v
 500/252 = 1.98g/ml
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B. 252 mL of a solution with a mass of 500 g
D= m/v
 500/252 = 1.98g/ml
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C. A 6.75 g solid with a volume of 5.35 cm3
D= m/v
 6.75/5.35= 1.26 g/ cm3
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D. 50.0 mg of a gas which occupies a volume of 0.0064 L
D= m/v
 D= 50.0/ .0064= 7812.5 mg/L
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