Full.Cream:

1stly, if they say 'apple', it's almost always a standalone apple. It wld be very cheeky to insist that the apple is still on the tree.


Eg, if there's a science qn on which of these (chick, puppy, tadpole) hatch from egg, we don't try to be funny and ask what if the egg is not fertilized, ya?

Is part of living thing a living thing. We are living thing, is our nail living thing. We are living thing, but when we die what are we. So must we say that living human is a living thing? It gets more and more cumbersome as it goes.

From a science question, it becomes a philosophical discourse.

By definition, living thing can grow, respire, reproduce.

Asking the question is seed a living thing, is like asking if an embryo is a baby. Of course it is a living thing, it respire and grow eventually reproduce.

Conclusion, the question is not well thought of, the writer of the question did not pay too much attention in crafting it and therefore do not require too much of our attention as well.

tianzhu:

Hi VC


Air is a matter with no fixed volume and no fixed shape. It compresses or expands to take the shape of the container holding it.
Yes the WS’s answer is correct.

You are right that air has no fixed volume and no fixed shape and therefore take after the shape and volume of the container. That is if the container is rigid enough.

When air is taken out of the ball, the amount of air inside decreases and therefore the pressure inside the ball decreases as well. The air in the atmosphere will then push the ball in and thus lowering the volume of the ball until such a state where the pressure in the ball is equal to the pressure of the atmosphere.

Therefore the WS's answer is incorrect.