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- 1. Multiple Choice
Pressure is defined as _______.
area/force
P1 = P2
force/area
mass/acceleration
- 2. Multiple Choice
The SI unit of pressure is _______.
Pascal
Bernoulli
Charles
Boyle
- 3. Multiple Choice
What causes a balloon to remain inflated?
The temperature of the air inside the balloon gradually decreases.
The walls of the balloon gradually compress the gas inside.
Air particles collide with the walls of the balloon.
Air particles continue to enter through the balloon's walls.
- 4. Multiple Choice
According to Boyle's law, at a constant temperature, if the volume of a container of gas is doubled the pressure of the gas will ____________.
double
increase
decrease
stay the same
- 5. Multiple Choice
According to Charles's law, at a constant pressure, if the temperature of a gas _______, the volume _______.
increases; decreases
decreases; stays the same
increases; increases
decreases; increases
- 6. Multiple Choice
What happens to a weather balloon as it rises in the atmosphere?
Its volume increases until it bursts
Its volume decreases
Its volume stays the same
It eventually drifts to the ground
- 7. Multiple Choice
According to Boyle's law, if you decrease the volume of a gas by half and the temperature is constant, what will happen to the pressure?
It will double
It will decrease by half
it won't change
Not enough information to tell
- 8. Multiple Choice
If you heat water in a 55 gallon drum and then close and rapidly cool the drum, what would you expect to happen?
Nothing
The pressure inside the drum would drop and cause the drum to collapse into itself.
The pressure in the drum would rise, causing the drum to explode
The pressure inside the drum would remain unchanged
- 9. Multiple Choice
What happens to the particles in a gas when you increase the temperature?
They move more slowly
The move more quickly
They do not change their speed
They change direction.
- 10. Multiple Choice
According to Charles Law, if you have a balloon inside a car at noon during a hot summer day the balloon molecules inside will increase in pressure.
True
False
- 11. Multiple Choice
Gas pressure is caused by
Gas molecules heating up
Gas molecules reacting with other gas molecules
Gas molecules hitting the walls of a container
Gas molecules hitting other gas molecules
- 12. Multiple Choice
Pressure is defined as _______.
area/force
P1 = P2
force/area
mass/acceleration
- 13. Multiple Choice
The SI unit of pressure is _______.
Pascal
Bernoulli
Charles
Boyle
- 14. Multiple Choice
What causes a balloon to remain inflated?
The temperature of the air inside the balloon gradually decreases.
The walls of the balloon gradually compress the gas inside.
Air particles collide with the walls of the balloon.
Air particles continue to enter through the balloon's walls.
- 15. Multiple Choice
According to Boyle's law, at a constant temperature, if the volume of a container of gas is doubled the pressure of the gas will ____________.
double
increase
decrease
stay the same
- 16. Multiple Choice
According to Charles's law, at a constant pressure, if the temperature of a gas _______, the volume _______.
increases; decreases
decreases; stays the same
increases; increases
decreases; increases
- 17. Multiple Choice
What happens to a weather balloon as it rises in the atmosphere?
Its volume increases until it bursts
Its volume decreases
Its volume stays the same
It eventually drifts to the ground
- 18. Multiple Choice
According to Boyle's law, if you decrease the volume of a gas by half and the temperature is constant, what will happen to the pressure?
It will double
It will decrease by half
it won't change
Not enough information to tell
- 19. Multiple Choice
If you heat water in a 55 gallon drum and then close and rapidly cool the drum, what would you expect to happen?
Nothing
The pressure inside the drum would drop and cause the drum to collapse into itself.
The pressure in the drum would rise, causing the drum to explode
The pressure inside the drum would remain unchanged
- 20. Multiple Choice
What happens to the particles in a gas when you increase the temperature?
They move more slowly
The move more quickly
They do not change their speed
They change direction.
- 21. Multiple Choice
According to Charles Law, if you have a balloon inside a car at noon during a hot summer day the balloon molecules inside will increase in pressure.
True
False
- 22. Multiple Choice
Gas pressure is caused by
Gas molecules heating up
Gas molecules reacting with other gas molecules
Gas molecules hitting the walls of a container
Gas molecules hitting other gas molecules
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