Lab: Density of Solids Answers

Gerald is fishing. He uses a bobber that floats on the surface to show him if the line is being moved, and a lure that sits below the surface to attract fish.Which statement accurately describes the densities of these two items?

Mason notices that his boat sinks lower into the water in a freshwater lake than in the ocean. What could explain this?

Which describes density?

What is the density of a 36 g object with a volume of 15 cm3? (Density: D = )

Cubes are three-dimensional square shapes that have equal sides. What is the density of a cube that has a mass of 12.6 g and a measured side length of 4.1 cm? (Density: D = )

What happens when an object has a density greater than that of the surrounding liquid?

Which describes how to calculate density?

The density of gold is 19.3 g/cm3. What is the volume of a 13 g gold nugget? (Density: D = )

Which object will sink in freshwater, which has a density of 1.0 g/cm3?

What is the equation for density?

This chart shows the volumes of four different objects.If the objects all have the same mass, which object is the most dense?

This table shows the mass and volume of four different objects.

If the density and volume of an object is known, what can also be found?

Janice measured the mass and the volume of an object. She then determined the density of the object by dividing the object’s mass by its volume (D = ). Which value would most likely represent the density of the object?