Physical Properties

Physical Properties

Poll

How are you today?

You can probably tell which objects and substances around you are solid, liquid or gas by the way they look, feel, and act. What you see are physical properties.

Physical properties are they way something looks, feels, or acts.

Examples of physical properties include:

• Solid, liquid, or gas at room temperature

• What temperature it freezes and boils at

• Appearance (colour, texture, and shape)

• If it is hard or brittle

• If it can dissolve in water

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Imagine you meet someone who has never seen an ice cube before.

How would you describe an ice cube's physical properties to them?

Match

Try to match the word with their definition.

• To squeeze or squash

• How much space something takes up (measured in litres)

• Does not change shape easily

• Changes shape easily and flows

• How much matter is in an object (measured in kilograms)

Compress

Volume

Rigid

Fluid

Mass

• Compress

• Volume

• Rigid

• Fluid

• Mass

Multiple Select

Select all of the statements about liquids that are true.

• They don't change in volume

• They are fluids that change shape depending on their container

• They tend to fill the entire space of their container

• They change in volume depending on their container

Multiple Select

Select all of the statements about gases that are true.

• They don't change in volume

• They are fluids that change shape depending on their container

• They tend to fill the entire space of their container

• They change in volume depending on their container

Multiple Select

Select all of the properties of the substance in this video that help to identify it as a gas.

• It flows through the air

• It changes shape easily

• It expands to spread through the whole space

• It doesn't change in volume

1. Cut out the empty table and glue it into your books

2. Cut out the physical properties and glue them into the correct state of matter​

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