Matter Unit Vocabulary Part 1

Anything that has mass and takes up space

• liquid

• solid

• physical state

• matter

Whether matter is a solid, liquid, or gas

• physical state

• matter

• gas

• liquid

A measurable volume and shape

• liquid

• solid

• gas

• matter

A measurable volume, but no shape

• gas

• solid

• liquid

• physical state

No measurable volume or shape

• solid

• liquid

• matter

• gas

Characteristic

• property

• sink or float

• mass

• temperature

How some materials behave in water

• mass

• temperature

• sink or float

• magnetism

The amount of matter in a material

• magnetism

• mass

• sink or float

• property

How much thermal energy a material has

• magnetism

• property

• mass

• temperature

Attraction to a magnet

• property

• mass

• magnetism

• sink or float