Matter Review

A tool used to separate out magnetic substances in mixtures such as iron filings

• Meter Stick

• Magnet

• Triple Beam Balance

• Tweezers

Which of the following is a method of separating solutions?

• hand seperation

• filtering

• screening

• evaporation

A combination of two or more substances that cannot easily be separated--

• mixture

• solution

• solute

• solvent

Every person, plant, and animal is made up of matter.

• True

• False

What state of matter has a shape?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

What is the definition of a Physical Property

• Characteristics of a substance that you can observe.

• Characteristics of a building that you can observe.

• Characteristics of a characteristic that you can observe.

Which change can occur when you add heat energy to water?

• The water can change from a liquid to a solid

• The water can change from a gas to a liquid

• The water can change from a liquid to a gas

• The water can change from a solid to a liquid

What is mass?

• anything that takes up space

• the amount of matter an object has

• the amount of space an object takes up

• the measure of how warm something is

The property of matter that sorts things by being magnetic or nonmagnetic

• magnetism

• buoyancy

• mass

• temperature

A student put a balloon on a balance before and after he blew up the balloon. What was he trying to prove?

• Air is made of gases and takes up space.

• Air is matter and has mass.

• The diameter of the balloon is greater after it is blown up.

• That balloons must be filled with helium before they will float.