Sinking and Floating

Water and other fluids exert a downward force called a buoyant force. 

• True
• False

A submerged object displaces a volume of fluid equal to its own volume. 

• True
• False

A ship floats as long as the buoyant force is greater than the ship's volume

• True
• False

If the net force of an object is upward, the object will sink.

• True
• False

The weight of an object is a downward force determined by its ___________ and the force of ______________.

• Mass and Gravity
• Weight and Height
• Force and motion
• Peanut Butter and Jelly

If a ship floats, the weight of the water it __________ is the same as the weight of the ship. 

• displaces
• disturbed
• distinguish
• buoyancy

The denser a fluid, the ___________ buoyant force it exerts.

• more
• less
• equal
• IDK

Th ability to float is called __________.

• buoyancy
• displacement
• submerged
• gravity

Because fluid pressure increases with depth, there is more fluid pressure on the _________________ of a submerged object than on the ______________.

• top and bottom
• outside and inside
• side to side
• front to back

The buoyant force acts in the opposite direction to the force of ______________.

• Star Wars
• gravity
• buoyancy
• displacement