Changing Matter

When thermal energy is added or removed to matter it can:

• become atoms

• change phases or states of matter

• change its volume

• change its mass

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Which of these does not take place in a physical change?

• Change in state of matter

• Change in size

• Change in shape

• Molecules interact and atoms rearrange

Click all the examples of chemical changes.

• Iron rusting

• water turning into steam

• Baking batter into cookies

• Cutting a slice of butter.

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What state of matter are the atoms in?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

• Plasma

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What state of matter are the atoms in?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

• Plasma

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Which of these does not occur when a chemical change occurs?

• Bubbling

• Change in state of matter

• Unexpected color change

• Two molecules interact and atoms rearrange

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What word is missing from the phase changes?

• Boiling

• Absolute zero

• Melting

• Vaporization

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Which phase change is missing?

• Vaporization

• Solidification

• Liquifying

• Deposition

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When we eat the molecules in our food are taken apart and rearranged, they are then sent throughout the body to be used for energy and growth. This is an example of which change?

• Physical change

• Chemical change

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When a car is painted the molecules of the car are covered in the molecules of the paint, but the molecules do not change. This is an example of what kind of change?

• Physical change

• Chemical change