Comprehension and additional task exercises pages 156 and 157 from Next Page Science KS3 Complete. Accompanying PowerPoint and word searches available for free from the website.
This exercise covers:
• An analogy comparing layers of bed sheets to the layers of air above us producing the weight and hence pressure we feel
• A pictorially aided explanation of a 1m2 column of air 10 miles high weighing 100,000N meaning a pressure of 100,000 N/m2
• Air thins with increased height, Everest as an example
• An explanation of why we only notice this large pressure when a pressure difference is created
• Collapsing can and Magdeburg hemispheres as examples of this
• An exercise plotting atmospheric pressure with height
• A gap filling exercise on change in pressure with height
• True or false statements on atmospheric pressure
• Amazing WHAT? facts
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