12-2 Factors Affecting Gas Pressure Name ____________ Hr___

Amount of Gas (pages 330 –331)

1. How do conditions change inside a tire when you pump it up with a tire pump?
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2. The diagrams below show a sealed container at three pressures. Complete the labels
showing the gas pressure in each container.

N particles 1.5 X N particles 6.3 X N particles

3. What can happen if too much air is pumped into a tire?

4. Is the following sentence true or false? When a sealed container of gas is opened, gas
will flow from the region of lower pressure to the region of higher pressure.
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5. Look at Figure 12.7 on page 331. What happens when the spray button on an aerosol
spray can is pressed?
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Volume (page 331)

6. In the diagram, complete the labels showing the
pressure on the piston and the gas pressure inside
the container.

100 kPa
100 kPa ______ kPa

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7. When the volume is reduced by one half, what happens to the pressure?
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8. Is the following sentence true or false? Raising the temperature of an enclosed gas
causes its pressure to decrease. ______________________
9. Circle the letter next to each sentence that correctly describes how gases behave when
the temperature increases.
a. The average kinetic energy of the gas particles increases as the particles absorb
thermal energy.
b. Faster-moving particles impact the walls of their container with more energy, exerting
greater pressure.
c. When the average kinetic energy of enclosed gas particles doubles, temperature doubles
and pressure is cut in half.

10. Explain why it is dangerous to throw aerosol cans into a fire.

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11. How are the average kinetic energy of gas particles and their Kelvin temperature
related?
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12. Decide whether the following sentence is true or false, and explain your reasoning.
When the temperature of a sample of steam increases from 100 °C to 200 °C, the average
kinetic energy of its particles doubles.

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13. What caused the can to burst in this picture?

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13a. What could have prevented the can form bursting?

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14. Gas pressure is affected by

a. Temperature, volume, and the amount of the gas.
b. Temperature, volume, and the molar mass of the gas.
c. Phase diagram, volume, and the size of the container.
d. Temperature, phase diagram, and the mass of the gas container.

15. For gases, the SI units for volume (V), pressure (P), and temperature (T) are,
respectively,
a. liters, kilopascals, and °C.
b. liters, kilopascals, and kelvins.
c. cm3, kilopascals, and kelvins.
d. liters, atmospheres, and °C.

16. Compared to liquids and solids, gases are easily compressed because the particles in
a gas
a. Attract each other.
b. Are spaced relatively far apart.
c. Are very small.
d. Repel each other.