A Change for the Butter

What are the two forms that butter takes?

• Solid

• melted

• liquid

• warm solid

What causes butter to go from a solid to a liquid?

• adding heat to the butter

• making the butter cooler

• adding cold water to the butter

• putting the butter in the refrigerator

The text says that liquid butter is warmer in temperature than solid butter. What evidence from the text supports this conclusion?

• “Have you ever seen anyone prepare food with butter?”

• “When the butter becomes a liquid, it flows."

• “When you heat up butter, it melts and turns into a liquid.”

• “Butter from the store is almost always in a solid form.”

Read these sentences from the passage.“When the butter is solid, it holds its own shape… When the butter becomes a liquid, it flows. It doesn’t have a shape of its own. Instead, it takes the shape of its container.”

Based on this information, what would happen if you put melted butter into a square container, then cooled the butter down?

What is the main idea of this passage?

• Butter is often used for cooking vegetables and meats.

• Butter can be either a solid or a liquid depending on how much heat it contains.

• Artists carve complicated butter sculptures at state fairs and farm shows.

• A thermometer can be used to measure the amount of heat in liquid butter.