Exploring Matter Vocabulary Quiz

What is anything that has mass and takes up space?

• Density

• Matter

• Solution

• Evaporation

What are characteristics that help us identify and describe matter, such as color and shape?

• Properties

• State

• Mass

• Volume

Tags

NGSS.5-PS1-3

What is the physical form of matter, which can be solid, liquid, or gas?

• Solution

• State

• Mixture

• Emulsion

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What determines if something floats or sinks by measuring how much matter is packed into a given space?

• Mass

• Volume

• Density

• Suspension

What is the process of squeezing or pressing something into a smaller space?

• Evaporation

• Compress

• Dissolve

• Chemical Change

What is the process by which a liquid turns into a gas at its surface?

• Solution

• Suspension

• Evaporation

• Emulsion

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

What happens when a substance seems to disappear in a liquid, forming a solution?

• Dissolve

• Compress

• Evaporation

• Mixture

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is a mixture formed when one substance (solute) is dissolved in another (solvent)?

• Emulsion

• Solution

• Suspension

• State

What process creates new substances, like rusting or burning?

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• Evaporation

• Dissolve

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

What is a change that does not create new substances, such as melting or dissolving?

• Chemical Change

• Physical Change

• Solution

• Compress