Buoyancy Quizziz

Who was Archimedes?

• The inventor of the wheel

• An ancient Italian writer

• An ancient Greek mathematician, physicisit, engineer, inventor and astronomer

• An old man

What did King Heiro II hire Archimedes to figure out?

• How tall he was

• If he had been scammed by a blacksmith

• How much he weighed

• How much gold he owned

How did Archimeded figure out buoyancy?

• By getting in the tub and noticing the water rising

• By getting in the tub and noticing the water lowering

• By throwing the crown up in the air

• By smelling the crown

What is Archimede's Principle?

• Things float and things sink

• Things in motion syay in motion

• The buoyant force of an object in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object

• What goes up must come down

When Bill Nye was dunked into the dunk tank, what happened to the water level?

• It went up

• It went down

A clay boat and a clay ball will displaced the (a)   amount of water

Fish fill their (a)   with oxygen to control how deep they swim

How big was the Titanic?

• The size of a sail boat

• 20 Football fields

• The size of St. Agnes

• 3 Football fields

What object caused the Titanic to sink?

• A whale

• An iceburg

• A rock

• Seaweed

An object will sink if...

• Gravitational Force < Buoyant Force

• Gravitational Force > Buoyant Force

• Gravitational Force = Buoyant Force