Properties of Matter Vocabulary Quiz

What is a materials ability to allow electric charges to flow?

• viscosity

• malleability

• conductivity

• electricity

What is a solid that forms and separates from a liquid mixture?

• colloid

• suspension

• acetate

• precipitate

What is matter that always has exactly the same composition; an element or compound?

• pure energy

• pure atom

• pure substance

• pure matter

What is the ability of a solid to be hammered without shattering?

• viscosity

• flexibility

• reactivity

• malleability

What is a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances?

• element

• atom

• compound

• nucleus

What is a change that occurs when a substance reacts and forms one or more new substances?

• physical change

• elemental change

• chemical change

• experimental change

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

What is the temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid?

• freezing point

• melting point

• boiling point

• condensation point

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What is the smallest particle of an element?

• nucleus

• atom

• molecule

• particle

What is the property that describes how readily a substance combines chemically with other substances?

• flammability

• viscosity

• reactivity

• probability

What is a substance that is made from 2 or more simpler substances and can be broken down into those simpler substances?

• molecule

• atom

• element

• compound