One Day During the Summer You and Some Friends Make

question 44

Multiple Choice

One day during the summer you and some friends make ice cream using an electric ice cream maker.To get the ice cream to form,a mixture of salt and ice is packed around the ice cream maker.A few days later you notice a yellow circle of dead grass where the ice cream maker had been placed.You hypothesize that some of the salt and ice mixture spilled onto the grass and ________.

• A)froze the grass
• B)was isosmotic to the grass cells causing the yellow circle of dead grass
• C)was hyperosmotic to the grass cells causing the yellow circle of dead grass
• D)was hypoosmotic to the grass cells causing the yellow circle of dead grass

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Definitions:

Muddy Puddle

A shallow pool of water mixed with dirt, creating a muddy liquid, often found on the ground after rain.

Drink

The act of consuming liquids or the liquids that can be consumed.

Fallacy

An error in reasoning that renders an argument logically invalid, often due to a misleading or unsound premise.

Generalization

The process of forming general concepts by abstracting common properties of specific instances.