Physical Science Quiz

This property of water alludes to water resisting temperature change, both for heating and cooling and water absorbing or releasing large amounts of heat energy with little change in actual temperature.

• Cohesion
• Adhesion
• High specific heat
• Universal solvent

This property of water allows attraction between particles of the same substance ( why water is attracted to itself), results in Surface tension (a measure of the strength of water’s surface) , and produces a surface film on water that allows insects to walk on the surface of water.

• Cohesion
• Adhesion
• High specific heat
• Universal solvent

______ is anything that has mass and takes up space.

• Mass
• Energy
• Matter
• chemicals

An _____ is the smallest building block of matter that an element can have that will still retain its chemical properties.

• element
• compound
• atom
• physical substance

What type of charge does a proton have?

• positive
• negative
• neutral

Where is the electron located in the atom?

• inside the nucleus
• outside the nucleus

_________, such as changes in size or state (ice to water), do not involve changes in chemical composition.

• Chemical Change
• Physical Change

______ (reactions) involve changes in chemical composition of the substances involved.

• Chemical Change
• Physical Change

The uneven distribution of charges across a molecule making one end positive (H) and the other negative (O) is called _______.

• Solvency
• Polarity
• Surface tension
• Quasar

Water dissolves nutrients in our food. It does not dissolve nonpolar substances like oil and wax. They don’t like water and are called _______.

• Quarks
• Ions
• Hydrophobic
• Neutrons
• Option 4