Materials 80 mL Carbonated Water
80 mL Acetic Acid
(2) Chalk Pieces (CaCO3)
Permanent Marker
*80 mL Tap Water
*Timer (watch, cell phone, internet, etc.)
Note: You must provide the materials listed in *red.
Labware
(3) 250 mL Beakers
Digital Scale
EXERCISE 1: SPELEOLOGY (UNDERSTANDING CAVE FORMATION)
In this exercise, you will observe what happens to chalk in different solutions and compare your observations to what occurs in nature.
1. Do the results of the exercise support your hypothesis? Explain your reasoning.
2. Compare and contrast the reaction of the chalk pieces in each solution.
3. Is this exercise an analog for physical or chemical weathering? Explain your reasoning.
4. Using your observations of the chalk in different solutions, explain how a limestone cave forms.

Chemical kinetics what was the rate of reaction in trial 3? choose the closest answer.

Astudent made a graph plotting the progress of a reaction over time. the student forgot to label the y-axis of the graph. a graph is shown with two graph lines. one graph line starts at a higher position on the y axis and slopes downwards towards the right. the other graph line starts at a lower position on the y axis and slopes upwards towards the right. the two graph lines stop short of intersecting each other and continue as separate lines which gradually become straight and parallel to the x axis. a vertical line is shown at a point where the two graph lines finally became parallel to the x axis. this vertical line is labeled equilibrium. the title on the x axis is time and an arrow pointing towards the right is shown above time. the title on the y axis is left blank. what best explains the label that the student should use on the y-axis? amount, because as the amount of product decreases, the amount of reactant increases over time. reaction rate, because forward and backward reaction become equal at equilibrium. amount, because the amounts of reactants and products become constant after equilibrium is reached. reaction rate, as the rate of forward reaction increases and rate of backward reaction decreases over time.

What can be found in the ionosphere