Physical Properties Vocab

What is the volume of the rock? The water level is displaced from 20 mL to 23 mL with the rock.

• 3 mL
• 23 mL
• 20 mL
• 43 mL

Anything that has mass and takes up space is called

• volume
  volume
• matter
• magnetism
• electricity

What are the three states of matter?

• gas, liquid, mass
• solid, liquid, gas
• mass, volume, thermal energy
• gas, temperature, solids

Which physical property is the amount of space something takes up and can be measured with a graduated cylinder?

• conductivity
• relative density
• thermal energy
• volume

Each of these objects is an example of what?house, desk, pencil, car

• metal
• wood
• plastic
• matter

When paper is folded to make an origami bookmark, what physical property of the paper changes?

• mass
• weight
• shape
• smell

Which tool would be used to measure the mass of an object?

• balance
• graduated cylinder
• meter stick
• spring scale

What is an example of a physical property?

• reactivity
•  color

Example for Physical property

• Odor
• burns in air

The graduated cylinder has a volume of 50 mL.  You drop a tennis ball in the cylinder.  The volume rises to 88 ml.  What is the volume of the tennis ball?

• 50 mL
• 80 mL
• 38 mL
• 88 mL