What are the three main states of matter?

• solid, particles and molecules

• solid, liquid and gas

• gas, steam and vapor

• steam, liquid and glass

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Particles have energy, so they are moving in each state.

• True

• False

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When particles are heated up they lose energy.

• True

• False

The change from a gas to a liquid is called 

• condensation
• evaporation
• sublimation
• deposition

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On a hot, humid summer day drops of water form on a can of cold soda. What process caused this to happen?

• condensation

• freezing

• vaporization

• deposition

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The change from liquid to solid is called ________________.

• Melting
• Freezing
• Evaporation
• Condensation

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The change from solid to a gas is called ________________.

• Sublimation
• Freezing
• Evaporation
• Condensation

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Melting is a process that changes _____________________________.

• solid to liquid

• liquid to solid

• liquid to gas

• gas to liquid

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Herbie notices that a puddle near his driveway was gone the next morning. The best description of what happened to the puddle is

• It evaporated

• It sublimated.

• It boiled.

• It froze.

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What is the definition of sublimation?

• a chemical process where a solid turns into a gas without going through a liquid stage
• the process of a liquid changing into a gas

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