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Properties of Air Quiz
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Short Answer
1. What are the three properties of air?
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Multiple Choice
Use the information in the following picture to answer question #2
1. When the glass reaches the bottom of the tank, the sugar cube will most likely:
a)
b)
c)
d)
stay dry, because the air in the glass will expand
stay dry, because the air in the glass will take up space
get wet, because the water will exert less pressure than the air
get wet, because the water will exert more pressure than the air.
2. Which experiment represents the property that air exerts pressure?
a) air is everywhere
b) huff n' puff
c) magic seal
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Long Answer:
1. Out of all the experiments we did in class, name one that demonstrated that air takes
up space. Explain the procedure, what happened and why it happened. (Procedure,
observations and inference)
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2. Out of all the experiments we did in class, name one that demonstrated that air has
weight. Explain the procedure, what happened and why it happened. (Procedure,
observations and inference)
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Matching
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Choose the correct word from the word box to answer the questions.
constant variable
mass
air can be compressed
air pressure
air
air takes up space
manipulated variable
air has mass
aerodynamics
atmosphere
1. Which property of air explains that
5. The amount of matter in an object.
"approximately one kilogram of air
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presses down on each square
6. The science dealing with the study of
centimeter of your body"?
objects moving through air.
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2. The force which prevented the air
7. When air molecules are forced into a
coming into the cup in our "diving paper"
smaller space, they increase in energy
experiment was air pressure. Which
and pressure.
property of air was this demonstrating?
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8. A balloon filled with air weighs more
3. An invisible mixture of gases which
than a deflated balloon.
make up t he earth's atmosphere.
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9. Something we change in an
4. The mass of air that surrounds the
experiment.
earth.
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10. The part of the experiment that we
keep the same.
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True or False
1. Density refers to how tightly or how
loosely packed the molecules of an
object are.
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2. If the pressure inside of a balloon
was greater than the pressure outside
of it the balloon would implode, or be
pushed inwards.
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3. Your ears pop when you go higher up
into the atmosphere because the
pressure outside of you and your body
is trying to balance out the pressure
inside of you.
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4. Air takes up space because it has
volume.
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5. Extra air can be squeezed into a
container, so the air pressure inside the
container becomes greater. Squeezed
air is called weight.
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