How does matter change?

During the first quarter, our driving question in science was...

• What is matter?

• How does matter change?

• How many states does matter have?

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What is matter?

• Anything that has mass and takes up space. It is made up of particles too small to be seen.

• Anything that is solid, liquid, or gas.

• What something weighs.

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Which investigation would best prove that matter is made up of particles too small to be seen?

• Sorting blue and red legos into different piles.

• Mixing salt and sugar together.

• Blowing air into a balloon.

A physical property is a characteristic that can be observed by our senses or by tools. An example of a physical property is...

• Color

• Ability to rust

• Ability to catch fire

A chemical property describes the way one kind of matter reacts with another. An example of a chemical property is...

• Odor

• Texture

• Ability to rust

There are three main states of matter. They are...

• Water, Ice, Steam

• Solid, liquid, gas

• Tight, loose, even looser

The particles in a solid are packed _________ together.

Liquids have a definite volume but no set ____________.

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The particles in a gas move freely and are ____ _______ from one another.

A physical change is...

• a change in the shape of form of matter. A physical change does not form a new substance.

• a change that occurs when particles that make up two or more substances are rearranged to form a new substance.