properties of matter

What is Matter?

• Anything made of particles. 

• It has mass and volume (takes up space).

• Matter can be in the form of a solid, liquid, or gas.

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What is matter?

• Everything

• Nothing

• Nothing you can see

• Just liquids

Physical Properties

• Can be observed with one or more of your 5 senses.

• Can be observed without changing what the object is made of.

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Physical Properties

• Can't be observed unless you change what they are made of.

• Can only be observed under a microscope

• describe the appearance of something.

• Can only be done in science.

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What are the 3 forms of matter?

• solid, liquid, soil

• solid, liquid, gas

• Earth, Wind, Fire

• Fire, Water, Soil

Texture

• How a substance looks and feels

• Coarse = rough

• Fine = smooth

• Other words to describe texture: soft, hard bumpy

Temperature

The measure of kinetic energy.

When the particles of heated up, they move quicker and temperature rises.

When the particles are cooled down, they move slower and the temperature decreases.

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What is texture?

• How something looks

• How something tastes.

• The sound something makes

• How something feels

Volume

• The amount of space an object takes up.

• Measured in cubic centimeters

Mass

How much matter is in an object

Measured in g or kg.

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What does volume measure?

• mass

• the size of something

• how much space something takes up.

• the speed something goes

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The ability of sugar to dissolve in water is called

• malleability

• Density

• State

• solubility

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Anything that has mass and takes up space

• Matter

• weight

• volume

• mass

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The blue ball has ________ mass than the red one.

• less
• more

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Mass, relative density, solubility, color, texture, state of matter, conductivity, etc.

• Physical state
• Insulators
• Physical Properties 
• Inferences

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Which process changes a gas to a liquid?

• freezing

• evaporation

• melting

• condensation

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Molecules in a ________ have definite shape and definite volume.

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• neither

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Molecules in a _____ have definite volume and no shape(they take the shape of their container).

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• neither

Density

• The ratio of mass to volume.

• Measures how packed the particles are in matter.

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What does density measure?

• Nothing

• How much volume something has

• how packed particles are in a substance.

• the temperature of an object.

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Which properties are physical properties?

• mass

• volume

• density

• all of these

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If an ice cube is left out in  room it will change from one state of matter to another.  Which is the correct order of State of Matter that the ice cube will go through?

• Gas, Solid, Liquid
• Liquid, Solid, Gas
• Liquid, Gas, Solid
• Solid, Liquid, Gas

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A substance that resists change and holds it's shape.

• liquid
  liquid
• solid
• water
• clouds

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Which of the following is NOT an example of matter?

• sun
• air
• snow
• thoughts

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Which box has a higher density?  

• Box A
• Box B
• cannot be determined
• they are the same

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What is water in a gas form called?

• Water vapor

• Ice

• liquid water

• Kool-aid

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What is the state of matter that has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

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Students sorted crayons into groups of red, blue and yellow.  Which property did they use to sort them?

• texture
• color
• shape
• mass

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How tightly the particles are packed together in an object

• reflection

• density

• hardness

• physical change

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Objects less dense than water will _____.

• float

• sink

• neither

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Objects that are more dense than water will ______.

• sink

• float

• neither