Physics GCSE
Cause-and-effect explanation
What Cause-and-effect explanation means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Cause-and-effect explanation
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Reference: OCR
The reasoning chains greater height, less air above, smaller weight, and lower pressure, rather than stating only that pressure decreases.
Topics that use Cause-and-effect explanation
- Pressure (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Atmospheric pressure and weight of air
- Closed systems
- Collisions with container walls
- Comparing pressures at different heights
- Constant temperature and constant average particle speed
- Density and depth
- density comparison
- Expansion and compression by pressure change
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