Properties of Matter Vocabulary Quiz

What are two or more materials stirred together?

• Solution

• Relative Density

• Mixture

• cereal

A special mixture that is formed when a material dissolves in water is called a __________.

• solution

• mixture

• property

• solvent

Something you can observe, such as size, shape, color, or texture is called a __________.

• Property

• matter

• soluble

• characteristic

The process in which one material disperses uniformly into another material so that the first material seems to disappear is called _____________.

• solubility

• solvent

• dissolving

• evaporating

A solution is made up of two parts, the ______ and the _______.

• Solvent and solute

• first item and the second item

• soluble and solute

• mixture and solution

In a solution, the solvent is the _______

• solid

• liquid

• gas

In a solution, the solute is the ____________.

• solid

• liquid

• gas

A solid has definite shape and definite volume; its particles are ..........

• not packed together as tightly and bump into each other

• packed together tightly

• packed together the least and move quickly

A _______ has a definite volume but no definite shape. The particles in a ________ are not packed so tightly and they gently bump into one another.

• liquid, liquid

• volume, volume

• solid, solid

• gas, gas

I have no definite shape or volume. Sometimes I am even odorless. What am I?

• gas

• oxygen

• carbon dioxide

• liquid