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Reading 6.1 – In What Ways Do People Use Detectors?

Total questions: 39

Worksheet time: 22mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

WHEN A GAS EXPANDS ITS TEMPERATURE RISES!

a)

true

b)

false

2.

As you breathe in through your ________, you force particles in the air to move through your nostrils.

a)

ears

b)

nose

c)

eyes

d)

toes

3.

In the nasal cavity, _________ particles match with receptors. Receptors are like the part of a lock into which a key fits.

a)

tastes

b)

odor

c)

feet

d)

oil

4.

Sometimes people forget to turn cars off in their garages, and the carbon __________ can build up in the air and move (like odors) into the house.

a)

oxide

b)

oxygen

c)

monoxide

d)

oil

5.

Some amount of carbon monoxide in the air is safe. The safe level is 39 parts per _______.

a)

hundred

b)

thousand

c)

million

d)

billion

6.

Many stores sell carbon monoxide detectors. They work like smoke_____________.

a)

stores

b)

fires

c)

alarms

7.

When a dangerous gas is odorless, then people cannot rely on their nose to warn them. People need other ways to detect ______________ gases.

a)

no

b)

all

c)

some

d)

odorless

8.

When the canaries stopped chirping, the miners knew that there was too much carbon monoxide in the air. The miners then left the _________.

a)

car

b)

truck

c)

store

d)

mine

9.

Which is this?

a)

solid

b)

liquid

c)

gas

10.
a)

solid

b)

liquid

c)

gas

11.

Which is this?

a)

soild

b)

liquid

c)

gas

12.

Which is this?

a)

solid

b)

liquid

c)

gas

13.

Which is this?

a)

solid

b)

liquid

c)

gas

14.

I am a state of matter: my molecules are very close together and hardly move. I am ____________.

a)

Solid

b)

Liquid

c)

Gas

d)

Oblek

15.

I am a state of matter: my molecules are jumping all over the place. I must be a _________.

a)

Solid

b)

Liquid

c)

Gas

d)

Oblek

16.

I am a state of matter: my molecules move past each other easily, but they are pretty close together.

a)

I am a solid

b)

I am a Liquid

c)

I am a gas

17.

Substances are made of particles.

a)

true

b)

false

18.

Substances are made of particles. The particles are constantly moving.

a)

true

b)

false

19.

In the gaseous state, there is empty ______________ between the particles.

a)

space

b)

time

c)

chairs

d)

nothing

20.

Each pure substance has characteristic physical and chemical properties (for any bulk quantity under given conditions) that can be used to ______________ it.

a)

issue

b)

identify

c)

imagine

d)

egg

21.

Air has mass and volume. Matter is anything that has mass and __________________.

a)

weight

b)

volume

c)

numbers

d)

vans

22.

Matter can exist in three states (or phases): solid, liquid, and gas.

a)

true

b)

false

23.

The state (or phase) of matter can be _________________ by temperature.

a)

undone

b)

changed

c)

mixed

d)

sold

24.

Gases have no definite shape or volume, and they can be added to or take out of a container.

a)

true

b)

false

25.

Gases can expand and be compressed.

a)

true

b)

false

26.

_______________ are made of particles with empty spaces in between them. All matter is made of particles.

a)

Gases

b)

Grapes

c)

Cars

d)

Bokes

27.

Particles in a gaseous state can move.

a)

true

b)

false

28.

Odors _____________ different because of the different materials of which the odors are made.

a)

think

b)

smell

29.

Humans smell about _____________ different odors.

a)

1

b)

10

c)

100

d)

10,000

30.

Gases and liquids are made of molecules or inert atoms that are moving about relative to each other.

a)

true

b)

false

31.

As the students pumped more air into the ball, the mass of the ball ______________.

a)

decreased

b)

got smaller

c)

increased

32.

What state of matter is salt at room temperature?

a)

gas

b)

liquid

c)

plasma

d)

solid

33.

Tiny nerve cells in the nose carry messages to the ________.

a)

brain

b)

tongue

c)

fingers

d)

air

34.

You can _________ more things than you can taste.

a)

eat

b)

drink

c)

smell

d)

hear

35.

What sense does smell intensify?

a)

sight

b)

hearing

c)

touch

d)

taste

36.

How can we smell different scents?

a)

scent molecules travels unto our noses

b)

we sniff the air

c)

our brain tells us what we are smelling

d)

a magic bus travels into our nose

37.

Matter in a ...... has a ...... volume and ...... shape

a)

gaseous state ___ no definite ___ no definite

b)

liquid state _____ no definite ___ definite

c)

a. solid state _____ no definite ___ no definite

38.
An ______________ is the basic particle from which all elements are made. 
a)
chemical bond
b)
atom
c)
molecule
39.
What is the picture displayed?
a)
Atom
b)
Element
c)
Molecule
d)
Compound