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Sink or float? Displacement quiz. https://youtu.be/seDsizwc

Total questions: 22

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the video about?

a)

Forces

b)

Mass

c)

Gravity

d)

Why things sink or float

2.

What is the first thing that floats?

a)

Smilenita (a smiling yellow toy)

b)

Seanceritops (A plastic dino)

c)

A marble

d)

An angry green fish called Jamie

3.

What is the first thing that sinks?

a)

A dino

b)

A marble

c)

An iron rod

d)

the teacher

4.

What is Jackazard's (the Chararizard) hypothesis about why things sink or float?

a)

He thinks less dense things float

b)

He thinks heavier things sink

c)

He thinks lighter things sink

d)

He thinks prettier things sink and thinks Jess would sink the faster of all

5.

Why is Charizard's hypothesis incorrect?

a)

Because heavy things don't sink

b)

Because if something is heavy has nothing to do with it sinking

c)

Because physics is a balance and weight is only half of the balance

d)

Because gravity doesn't work in water

6.

What example of a heavy thing that floats is given?

a)

A ball

b)

A marble

c)

A cruise ship

d)

An airplane

7.

What is displacement?

a)

Not placement

b)

How hard gravity pulls

c)

How much water something pushes away when it sinks

d)

How much pizza Charlene can eat

8.

What would displace more water, an elephant or a ping-pong ball?

a)

A ping pong ball

b)

an elephant

c)

they would both be equal

d)

neither would displace any water at all

9.

What force pulls things down toward the center of the Earth?

a)

friction

b)

gravity

c)

motion

d)

velocity

10.

Why do ping-pong balls float, but elephants sink?

a)

Ping-pong balls displace more water

b)

Ping-pong balls have less mass than the water they displace

c)

elephants displace more water

d)

elephants have more mass

11.

Things that have less density are more likely to float. Why?

a)

They have more volume for the same amount of mass

b)

They have less mass

c)

They are pulled down less by gravity

d)

They produce less friction

12.

What elements make up water?

a)

Oxygen and sulfur

b)

Oxygen and carbon

c)

Hydrogen and oxygen

d)

Hydrogen and carbon

13.

If something has a mass of 1kg and could push away 2kgs of water, what will happen to it?

a)

It will sink

b)

It will float

c)

It will fly like an eagle

d)

It will neither sink nor float

14.

Which marble displaces more water?

a)

The smaller marble (one with less volume)

b)

The bigger marble (one with more volume)

c)

They displace the same amount of water

d)

Each displaces more than the other

15.

What equipment will the experiment use?

a)

Scissors

b)

A bowl

c)

markers

d)

paper

e)

a microscope

16.

How many marbles did it take to sink the sheet of paper?

a)

1

b)

2

c)

3

d)

4

17.

What variable would we use in our experiment?

a)

How high the walls/sides of the boat are

b)

How fast the boat is

c)

How many marbles we use to sink it

d)

How much water we use

18.

What outcome shall we measure?

a)

How high the boat sides are

b)

How much water we use

c)

How many marbles it takes to sink the boat

d)

The velocity of the boat

19.

What key science facts will be in our hypothesis and conclusion?

a)

p=f/a

b)

F=mxa

c)

Velocity and mass

d)

Gravity and displacement

20.

What kind of graph would best fit my results?

a)

A line graph

b)

A bar graph

c)

A pie chart

d)

A pictogram

21.

There are two objects. Object 'A' pushes away 3 Kgs of water and has a mass of 2.45kgs. Object 'B' pushes away 8kgs of water and has a mass of 12kgs. Which, if any, float.

a)

Both A and B float

b)

Both A and B sink

c)

A floats, B sinks

d)

A sinks, B floats

22.

Why do cruise ships float?

a)

They have a low mass

b)

They balance gravity with friction

c)

They displace a volume of water greater than their mass

d)

They are made of low-density materials like steel.