DIRECTIONS: Read the passage given below and answer the questions that follow. Passage Take a soft plastic bottle and fill it with boiling hot water. Empty the bottle and cap it tightly. Place the water under running water. You will observe that the plastic bottle becomes distorted. Why does the plastic bottle get distorted?

• A. Because it is made of soft plastic
• B. Because the difference in air pressure inside the bottle and the air pressure outside
• C. Both the above
• D. None of the above