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Punkin Chunkin For Kids

Questions:
0. So, why toss pumpkins?
1. Are pumpkins fruits or vegetables?
2. What biological family includes pumpkins?
3. Without moisture, what are the elements which make up air?
4. When the gaseous element Helium is described as noncombustible and chemically inert what does this mean?
5. If a pumpkin weighs 10 lbs and is accelerated to 100g's (100 times the pull of gravity), how much does it weigh?
6. Is this enough to punch a hole through a car door?
7. Why do commercial jet airliners fly six to eight miles high?
8. If a pumpkin is shot 0.7 mile in Lewes, DE (25 feet above sea level), will it fly farther in Denver, CO (elevation 5000 feet)?
9. By how much?

Answers:
0. Given the same energy, they fly farther than anvils.
1. Fruits.
2. Pumpkins are cucurbit crops in the family cucurbitaceae. Cucumbers, melons and squash are also members.
3. Air is composed of 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% Argon and others as trace. Water vapor can make up over 6%.
4. Inert means its electron shell is filled making reactions with other elements impossible.
5. The pumpkin would weigh 1000 lbs.
6. You bet!
7. Thinner air density reduces drag by around 75% so they go farther on the fuel they carry.
8. Yes, given the same conditions, it will fly farther in Denver.
9. You go figure.

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