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Year 8 STEM - Intro to Matter

Total questions: 13

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. What is matter?

a)
  • Anything that can be seen

b)

Anything that takes up space and has mass

c)

Anything that can be touched

d)

Anything that is solid

2.

2. What are the building blocks of matter?

a)

Molecules

b)

Compounds

c)

Atoms

d)

Elements

3.

3. Which of the following is a characteristic of solids?

a)
  • Shape is a variable

b)
  • Volume is a variable

c)

Mass is variable

d)

Shape is constant

4.

4. How are the atoms or molecules arranged in a solid?

a)
  • Loosely packed and moving freely

b)
  • Tightly packed and fixed in place

c)
  • Loosely packed and sliding past each other

d)

Very far apart and moving freely

5.

5. Which of the following is true about liquids?

a)
  • Volume is constant

b)
  • Shape is constant

c)
  • Volume is a variable

d)

Mass is variable

6.

6. How do the atoms or molecules behave in a liquid?

a)
  • They are tightly packed and fixed in place

b)
  • They are very loosely arranged and far apart

c)
  • They slide and roll past each other

d)

They are fixed in a rigid structure

7.

7. What is true about gases?

a)
  • Shape is constant and volume is constant

b)
  • Shape is constant and volume is variable

c)
  • Shape is variable and volume is constant

d)

Shape is variable and volume is variable

8.

8. How are the atoms or molecules arranged in a gas?

 

a)
  • Tightly packed and fixed in place

b)
  • Loosely packed and sliding past each other

c)
  • Very loosely arranged and very far apart

d)

Tightly packed but able to move freely

9.

9. What happens to the state of matter when a substance is heated?

a)
  • It can change from solid to liquid or liquid to gas

b)
  • It always turns into a gas

c)
  • It always turns into a solid

d)

It never changes

10.

10. Which process describes a solid turning into a liquid?

a)
  • Freezing

b)
  • Melting

c)
  • Evaporation

d)

Condensation

11.

11. Which process describes a liquid turning into a gas?

a)
  • Freezing

b)
  • Melting

c)
  • Evaporation

d)

Condensation

12.

12. What is an element?

a)
  • A substance made from different types of atoms

b)
  • A substance made from one type of atom

c)
  • A combination of molecules

d)

A mixture of compounds

13.

13. What is a compound? 

a)
  • Atoms of different elements combined

b)
  • A mixture of different elements

c)
  • A single type of atom

d)

A substance that cannot change state