Physical Properties of Matter

Which property determines whether one substance will sink or float in another substance?

Which term means “a combination of two or more substances that maintain their identities”?

What term is used to identify a mixture that has the same composition throughout?

At room temperature helium does not have a definite shape or volume. Which state is it in?

Elise wants to classify matter based on a physical property. Using the tool shown, how could she classify objects?

Chase made a mixture of iron filings and sand. Which provides evidence that the ingredients of this mixture maintain their physical properties?

Carlos is making a solution using salt and water. How will the physical properties of the salt change when it dissolves?

The states of matter differ in many ways, including shape and volume. The following three figures show the particles in a solid, a liquid, and a gas.

Which is a correct classification?

Which type of matter is classified as a conductor of thermal energy?

Sara wanted to classify substances based on a certain physical property. She set up five beakers of water. She chose five substances to test. She added one substance to each beaker, stirred, and observed. She noted whether the added substance could still be seen. What physical property was Sara testing?