Changes in Matter Mastery Check

Jia is preparing to cook a family dinner, and she begins by gathering ingredients for the main course and desert. She realizes that most ingredients go through both a physical change and a chemical change as they cook.

One of the ingredients for her main course undergoes physical changes. Which of the following is a physical change?

• cooking eggs

• grilling hamburger

• baking bread

• boiling water

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Jia is preparing to cook a family dinner, and she begins by gathering ingredients for the main course and desert. She realizes that most ingredients go through both a physical change and a chemical change as they cook.

For dessert, she prepares a delicious apple pie. During one of those steps, she notices an example of a chemical change. Which one is it?

• softening butter

• folding a sheet of aluminum foil

• heating sugar to make caramel

• dicing an apple

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Jia is preparing to cook a family dinner, and she begins by gathering ingredients for the main course and desert. She realizes that most ingredients go through both a physical change and a chemical change as they cook.

As her family eats the delicious dinner, Jia remembers a an important fact about the law of conservation of mass. What does she remember?

• Matter always moves from hot to cold.

• Matter is not created or destroyed in any change.

• Matter can change physically or chemically.

• Matter is the amount of mass in a given volume.

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Anna looks around the skating rink and notices many examples of the movement of thermal energy. For example, she sees her friend holding a cup of hot chocolate in the cold rink. Thermal energy flows from ______ matter to cold matter.

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Gwen is training for a marathon and fueling her body with healthy food. What kind of energy changes the food into energy for her muscles?

• thermal

• solar

• physical

• chemical

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Patrick is giving a presentation on thermal energy to his class. How can he use the terms endothermic and exothermic to explain the change in thermal energy from one substance to another? Give an example of each term.

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A large bar of solid gold is melted into liquid. The liquid is then poured into molds to make a number of gold coins. Was this a chemical or physical change. Explain.

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If you cut an apple into slices and leave them in the open air, they will slowly turn brown. What kind of chemical change is this? Explain your answer.

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A stick of butter is melted into a saucepan. As it continues to cook, the butter turns brown. What physical and chemical changes have occurred?

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