Matter Vocabulary

What is matter?

• Anything that has volume and mass

• The amount of space a substance takes up

• The amount of force gravity exerts

• The process of a solid changing to a liquid

What does volume refer to?

• The amount of matter in a substance

• The amount of space that a substance takes up

• The process of a liquid changing to a solid

• The temperature at which a liquid changes to a gas

What is density?

• The amount of matter in a certain volume

• The process of a solid changing to a liquid

• The state of matter with no definite volume

• The temperature at which a liquid changes to a gas

What is a liquid?

• The state of matter with a definite shape

• The state of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape

• The process of changing a liquid to a gas

• The amount of matter in a substance

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

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What is melting?

• The process of a liquid changing to a solid

• The process of a solid changing to a liquid

• The process of changing a liquid to a gas

• The state of matter with no definite shape

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is freezing?

• The process of a solid changing to a liquid

• The process of a liquid changing to a solid

• The process of changing a liquid to a gas

• The state of matter with no definite volume

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What is vaporization?

• The process of a solid changing to a liquid

• The process of changing a liquid to a gas

• The process of a gas changing to a liquid

• The state of matter with a definite shape

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is the boiling point?

• The temperature at which a liquid changes to a gas

• The process of a solid changing to a liquid

• The process of a gas changing to a liquid

• The state of matter with no definite shape

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

What is evaporation?

• A form of vaporization, when a liquid changes to a gas

• The process of a solid changing to a liquid

• The process of a gas changing to a liquid

• The state of matter with a definite shape

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What does a chemical change involve?

• Mixing two substances physically

• A change in matter forming a new substance with different properties

• Dissolving a solute in a solvent

• Spreading substances evenly

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

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