Question

Explain why half of a cucumber becomes soft if left lying on the kitchen table for a few days but becomes turgid if its cut end is placed in distilled water for the same duration of time?

Answer 1

Explanation:

when it lying on the table it dehydrates thats why becomes soft

when it is placed in water it absorbs water through a phenomena 'osmosis', resulting in turbidity of cucumber.

Answer 2

“For instance, if you measure your mass on Earth and then measure your mass on the moon, your mass will remain the same. But if you measure your weight on the Earth and on the moon, your weight will be far less on the moon because of a weaker gravitational force,” Baldridge said.