The Case of the Missing Mass: Students have completed the experiment of combining vinegar and baking soda. They notice that thei
r beginning mass in the video does not match the ending one. Use the equation(below) and the Law of Conservation of Mass to explain why the students have NOT destroyed atoms in their experiment. This is the chemical equation for the experiment:
The law of conservation of mass states that atoms cannot be created not destroyed, so they could not have destroyed it. This means that the experiment had to be open (which means there is no barrier that keeps all the solution in, like a plug or a bag). When the liquid in the equation turned into gas, the gas floated away from the solution, making the ending mass smaller than the beginning.
<span>The lynx population will increase. Then the hare population will drop because they're being eaten by all the lynxes and so the lynx population will drop too because they won't have much food. These things can be modeled with differential equations.</span>
Answer: During the process of photosynthesis plants break apart the reactants of carbon dioxide and water and recombine them to produce oxygen (O2) and a form of sugar called glucose (C6H12O6).
