What is matter?

Which of the following describes a solid?

• Matter that keeps its own size and shape
• Matter that does not have its own size and shape
• Matter that has its own volume but not size and shape 

Which of the following describes liquids?

• Matter that keeps its own size and shape
• Matter that has its own volume, but not its own size and shape 
• Matter that does not have its own size and shape

Which of the following describes gas?

• Matter that has its own volume, but not its own size and shape
• Matter that does not have its own size and shape
• Matter that keeps its own size and shape

Which of the following is a tool that is used to measure temperature?

• Pencil 
• Scale
• Thermometer 

Which of the following words means to put two or more things together?

• mixture 
• combine 
• volume 

What is volume?

• Something about an object you can observe with you senses 
• To put two or more things together
• The amount of space matter takes up

Look at the picture. What properties does this baseball bat have?

• rough and soft
• rough and hard
• smooth and hard 

Milk takes the shape of its container. Which kind of matter is milk?

• solid
• liquid
• gas

Which describes a physical change to matter?

• moving paper
• cutting paper
• flipping paper over

Which answer makes the sentence true. 
Matter is anything that _______________________________. 

• is burned to make heat
• takes up space and has mass
• lets electricity move through it