What is the effect of increasing temperature on the vapor pressure of a liquid?
Correct Answer: Increasing temperature increases vapor pressure.
- Step 1: Understand that a liquid is made up of many tiny molecules that are always moving.
- Step 2: Know that temperature is a measure of how fast these molecules are moving.
- Step 3: When the temperature increases, the molecules move faster because they have more energy.
- Step 4: As the molecules move faster, some of them can escape from the liquid into the air above it.
- Step 5: The escaping molecules create vapor, which is the gas form of the liquid.
- Step 6: The more molecules that escape, the higher the vapor pressure becomes.
- Step 7: Therefore, increasing the temperature leads to an increase in vapor pressure.
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