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POP GOES THE EAR! Are you ready for another trip? It is time to pack the car again and visit more of our great state. This time your trip will begin in St. George. After a day of hiking in the sun, you will travel North on I-15 to Provo. Once there you will head up Provo Canyon to your final destination in the Uintah Mountains. (Yes, you have taken a virtual trip there before, but the Uintah Mountains are cool enough to visit a couple of times.) While on this virtual trip, you have passed the time by playing the "ABC" and license plate games with you sisters. Suddenly, you feel a funny, crunching in your ear and you are unable to hear what your little sister said. Something has happened to your hearing. You yawn, take a drink of soda, and chew some gum to try to get your ears to "pop." Not long after your ears crunched, your mother starts complaining about her ears. What is happening and what does it have to do with the atmosphere? |
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"WEIGH" TO GO! Compared to a rock or even a feather, air
does not weight very much. But air is a gas made up of tiny
molecules of matter. Air has weight. It is pressing all
around us. Air pressure is the weight
of air in our atmosphere pressing down upon the Earth.
YOU'RE THE SCIENTIST! You can prove that air has weight by
performing the following activity. MATERIALS: This is what you
need. PROCEDURE: This is what you
do.
