Properties of Matter

What is Mass?

• Mass is weight
• A cat
• An animal
• A measurement of how much matter is in an object.

A gas

• has a definite shape but no definite volume
• has a definite volume but no definite shape
• has fast-moving particles

The opposite phase of melting is 

• freezing 
• sublimation
• condensation 
• deposition 

Matter that is least common on Earth but the most common in the universe, stars are made of it 

• gas 
• liquid 
• solid 
• plasma 

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Which of the following occurs when a liquid becomes a gas?

• the particles slow down
• the particles beak away from one another
• the particles move closer together

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The measure of the amount of matter in an object

• mass
• area
• matter

What is a characteristic of matter that can be measured or observed without changing matter into something new?

• matter
• molecule
• physical property
• states of matter

Which is bigger, an atom or a molecule

• atom
• molecule

Which state of matter has molecules that slide past each other but stay close together? They do not form a regular pattern.

• solid
• liquid
• gas

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A colloid has properties of both solutions and ____. 

• suspensions
• solvents
• solutes 
• nonmetals