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WorksheetsProperties Matter Review
Total questions: 61
Worksheet time: 38mins
Which tool does a scientist use to measure VOLUME?
Ruler
Balance
Graduated Cylinder
Which tool does a scientist use to measure LENGTH?
Ruler
Balance
Graduated Cylinder
Which tool does a scientist use to measure MASS?
Ruler
Balance
Graduated Cylinder
A scientist wants to look at the texture of a material. She cannot see the details by just looking at the material. What would most help the scientist see the texture of the material?
Using a balance to determine the mass of the material.
Using a magnet to see if the material is attracted to it.
Using a ruler to measure the details of the material.
Using a hand lens or microscope to observe the details in the material.
A bowl contains salt, pennies, and rocks. Tom pours hot water into the bowl. What will most likely happen?
Only the salt and rocks dissolve in the hot water.
Only the salt dissolves in the hot water.
Nothing in the bowl dissolves in the hot water.
Everything in the bowl dissolves in the hot water.
What unit can be used to measure the volume of a liquid?
Inches
Grams
Liters
Meters
Anna has a marble, a toy car, and a graduated cylinder with 20 mL of water in it. How can Anna best find the volume of the marble and toy car together?
Put both objects in the graduated cylinder, look at how much the water rises, and divide this number by two.
Put both objects in the graduated cylinder and see how much the water rises from the original volume of 20 mL.
Pour out the water, put each object in the graduated cylinder, and see which mark it reaches.
Nicole puts some strawberry ice cream in the freezer for three hours. She then leaves the ice cream out in the sun for three hours. What property of the ice cream will most likely stay the same?
Texture
Shape
Hardness
Color
What do a glass of ice water, a salad, and a wooden table, have in common?
They are all solutions.
They are all matter.
They are all solids.
What is one way to describe all matter?
It is attracted to magnets.
It has mass.
It is a mixture.
It has a definite shape.
Anything that has mass and takes up space is.....
property
volume
matter
mass
______________ is the amount of space that matter takes up.
mass
weight
matter
volume
__________________ is the amount of matter in an object.
volume
mass
weight
matter
A _____________ is something about an object that you can observe with your senses.
matter
mass
volume
property
Milan has a piece of paper, book, round plate, and a writing journal. Which object would NOT belong in the group if Milan classifies them based by the physical property of shape?
writing journal
plate
paper
book
A pan balance is used to measure which property of matter?
volume
weight
mass
hardness
Which 2 properties can be observed using the sense of touch?
texture and smell
odor and texture
texture and taste
texture and hardness
Mrs. Pelphrey's son Connor is playing with Play Dough. He makes 4 balls out of the Play Dough. He puts all the Play Dough balls on a balance and measure the total mass as 40 g. He then pushes the Play Dough into one big ball and measures its mass. Which of the following would be a reasonable mass for the entire ball?
44 g
40 g
10 g
41 g
If an object is attracted to a magnet, what could the object contain?
wood
plastic
rubber
iron
Ava holds the ends of two magnets together. They repel each other. What claim is true?
The two poles are opposites, north and south
The two poles are the same.
It is impossible to tell anything about the magnets
The poles are opposite, south and north
Mrs. Labella's class is trying to find the volume of a centimeter cube. What two instruments could they use to find the volume of the cube?
ruler and pan balance
graduated cylinder and pan balance
ruler and spring scale
ruler and graduated cylinder
Caleb built two identical action figures with his legos. He puts one action figure on one pan of a balance. He takes the other action figure apart and places all the parts on the other pan of the balance. Which claim tells what he will MOST LIKELY observe about the pans of the balance?
The pan with the action figure will be slightly lower than the pan with the parts
The pan with the action figure will be slightly higher than the pan with the parts
The pan with the action figure will be completely lowered, and the pan with the parts will be completely raised
The pan with the action figure will be even with the pan with the parts
Mrs. Davis is using a pan balance to measure the mass of skittles. She places a handful of skittles on the left side of the pan balance and another handful on the right side of the pan balance. The left side sinks down. What reasoning explains why this most likely happened.
Both sides have the same number of skittles
She has more skittles on the right side
She has less skittles on the left side
She has more skittles on the left side
vinegar
iron filings
nuts, chocolate drops, and
pretzels
which set of terms properly labels the diagram?
solid liquid gas
liquid gas plasma
gas solid liquid
gas liquid solid
A balloon is inflated with room temperature air and is placed outside in the sun. The balloon expands due to the rise in temperature. Which of the following describes what happens to the molecules of air as the temperature rises?
The molecules of air stop colliding with the balloon wall
The molecules of air increase in size
There are fewer interactions between the air molecules
The molecules of air move more quickly
Magnetism is a force that.... (best answer)
pulls
pushes
has energy
pulls and pushes
Temperature is an example of what type of property of matter?
measurable
observable
Color is an example of what type of property of matter?
measurable
observable
All heavy items sink.
true
false
What is the mass of the object being measured?
142 grams
100 grams
40 grams
140 grams
True or False? All metals are attracted to magnets.
true
false
What is volume?
the amount of matter in an object
the amount of space an object takes up
the amount of mass in an object
the amount of weight an object has
What is the ability of an object to attract certain metal objects?
mass
matter
volume
density
magnetism
This tool helps us to study small particles.
balance
graduated cylinder
themometer
ruler
microscope
What is a physical properties that may be observed just by looking at or touching an object?
texture
mass
volume
density
A student adds a marble to a graduated cylinder with 80 mL of water. Then the water level rises to 100 mL of water. What is the student’s purpose for this investigation?
to find the mass
to find the temperature
to find the density
to find the volume
The nail is ______________ because it contains ______________.
buoyant; iron
magnetic, atoms
magnetic, iron
straight, matter
Which statement is true about liquids?
They retain their shape.
They take the shape of their container.
They are always the same temperature.
They are invisible.
Which of these statements is true about gases?
They fill the shape of their container.
They have no fixed volume.
They are always the same temperature.
They have mass.
Which change occurs when lemon juice is mixed with water?
the water becomes a solid
the mass of the lemon juice decreases
the lemon juice dissolves and spreads out evenly in the water
the volume of the water decreases
Which of the following substances will dissolve in water?
iron fillings
vegetable oil
sugar
sand
A teacher mixes a white powder into a beaker of water. The power cannot be seen in the water. The teacher then heats the mixture until the water evaporates and the powder can be seen again. Which property of the powder is the teacher demonstrating?
solubility
volume
magnetism
mass
A worker built a sidewalk and pressed some large salt particles into the concrete while it was still wet. When the concrete was dry, the worker washed the sidewalk with water. The picture below shows the sidewalk after it was washed. What most likely happened to the salt?
It evaporated into a gas
it turned into concrete
it dissolved in the water
it turned into a solid
A beaker with 120 ml of liquid has a temperature of 21 degrees Celsius. The solution contains 10 g of sugar. Students add two ice cubes to the solution and stir the solution with a stirring rod. Which properties of the solution changed as the ice cubes melted?
The color and physical state of the solution.
The temperature, mass and volume of the solution.
The physical state and the temperature of the solution.
