U1 Test: Understanding Matter

Match the following

• Conduction

• The heat transfer through open space

• Substance

• A single kind of matter that is pure and

• Chemistry

• The study of the properties of matter and how matter changes

• Radiation

• The heat transfer through objects that are touching

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Match the following

• pressure

• The heat transfer through a liquid or gas.

• convection

• The amount of force per unit area applied to an object’s surface

• matter

• Anything that has mass and takes up space.

In which state of matter do particles have a fixed shape and volume, like a block of ice?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

• Plasma

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What state of matter is this?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

• Plasma

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What state of matter is this?

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

• Plasma

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

When a pot of water is heated on a stove, the movement of water molecules...

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• nothing

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As temperature increases, the pressure...

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

• nothing

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A characteristic of a pure

substance that can be observed

without changing it into another

substance.

• Chemical Change

• Physical Change

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

A characteristic of a pure

substance that describes its

ability to change into

different substances.

• Chemical Change

• Chemical Property

• Physical Change

• Physical Property

Match the following

• Melting

• Change from a liquid to a solid; particles move slower

• Evaporation

• Change from a solid to a liquid; particles move faster

• Vaporization

• Change from a liquid to gas; particles move faster

• Freezing

• Vaporization that only occurs at the surface of a liquid

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