Matter Grade 2

What something is made of, like wood, metal, or plastic.

• Material
• Substance
• Compound
• Element

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Materials that come from nature, like wood from trees or cotton from plants.

• Natural Material
• Biomaterial
• Organic Material
• Natural Resource

Materials designed and made by people, like plastic or fabric.

• Processed Material
• Natrural Material

• Wood

• Plants

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

How much light can pass through a material. Clear glass is transparent because you can see through it.

• Transparency
• Opacity
• Translucency
• Reflectivity

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

When a material soaks up water, like a sponge.

• Absorb
• Retain
• Ingest
• Absorption

How easily a material can be shaped or bent, like clay.

• Malleability
• Flexibility
• Hardness
• Stiffness

When light bounces off a material, like a mirror.

• Reflection
• Deflection
• Refraction
• Mirroring

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

How long something is.

• Length
• Width
• Height
• Depth

How heavy something is.

• Weight (Mass)
• Volume
• Density
• Mass

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

To mix or put together different materials to make something new.

• Combine
• Blend
• Merge
• Unite

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2