Changes in Matter

Rosa is going to pour the liquid substance from the container shown into a large bucket. Which observation will Rosa most likely make?

• The mass of the liquid substance will increase.

•      The liquid substance will immediately turn into a gas.

• The liquid substance will begin to change colors.

• The liquid substance will take the shape of its container.

   

A class is observing the properties of materials. They made a list of their observations. Which two properties would provide evidence of a substance’s state of matter?

• Color

• Volume

• Weight

• Shape

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The liquid will ____________ and the gas will _________________.

• be compacted/ be compacted

• flow out of the container/ stay the same

• stay the same/flow out the container

• will be compacted/stay the same

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Wes has two bricks of clay that are the same mass. He takes one brick of clay and slices it into separate pieces. He takes the pieces from the sliced brick and rolls each piece into a coil. He then uses the coils to make a clay pot.Wes places the clay pot on one pan of the balance and the leftover clay brick on the other pan. Circle the picture that shows what Wes will observe.

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          Maria places a beaker of 20°C water on a burner and heats the water until it reaches 100°C. She measures the temperature and the mass of the beaker of water every minute for 12 minutes. The graph shows some of her results. Select the graph that most likely shows Maria’s data for the mass of the beaker of water.

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Luke is looking for evidence of evaporation. Which two examples show that evaporation is occurring?  

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Lakesha’s science group wants to know if a physical change occurs during an experiment. What evidence should they look for? Choose the three correct answers.

• a shape change

• a temperature change

• a change in the type of matter

• a change in the state of matter

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Jorge’s mom was working on a project one weekend. She left some nails outside on the patio for two weeks, and the nails got wet. The pictures show the nails before and after being left outside. Based on the evidence in the pictures, what happened to the nails?

• The nails changed states of matter.

• The nails underwent a physical change.

• A chemical reaction occurred.

• A mixture was formed.

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Jorge weighed the nails before his mom left them outside. Then he weighed the nails after they were left outside for two weeks.Complete the sentence to describe what Jorge noticed about the mass of the nails before and after they were left outside.

The mass of the nails ______________because ___________________.

• increased/matter was added to the nails during a chemical change

• decreased/rust is heavy

• remained the same/rust dissolved the nail

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This diagram shows the particles in two substances that are being combined. What would the model look like if a chemical reaction had occurred?

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