Particle Theory of Matter
States of Matter
Thermometer
Weird Water
Building Sense
100
All matter is made up of these.
What are particles?
100
The name of the transition from liquid to solid
What is freezing?
100
The units used to measure temperature in Canada.
What are degrees celsius?
100
The freezing point of Water.
What is 0 degrees celsius?
100
An intentional inclusion of a gap in a building to allow for thermal expansion.
What is an expansion joint?
200
What are the three main states of matter?
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
200
The name of the transition from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
200
The term that describes when particles spread out.
What is expansion?
200
Temperature when water is densest
What is 4 degrees Celsius?
200
The reason why choosing appropriate materials for the climate you are building in is important.
What is thermal expansion?
300
Particles stop moving at this temperature.
What is -273.16 degrees celsius or absolute 0 or 0 Kelvin?
300
When matter shifts from one state to another it is called a ______.
What is a phase change?
300
It is what is happening to the liquid inside a thermometer when it cools down.
What is contraction?
300
The role that ice plays in keeping aquatic life alive in lakes during the winter.
What is insolates?
300
The reason that potholes are so common in Grande Prairie.
What is the freeze/thaw cycle where what freezes and expands then melts and soaks into the ground leaving a hole?
400
This change in temperature makes particles move more quickly.
What is heating?
400
It is what happens to energy of matter during melting.
What is absorbs energy?
400
Reason we should be careful when working with old liquid thermometers.
What is mercury?
400
The reason that water expands when frozen.
What is water is forms regular, hexagonal structures?
400
The change in temperature that requires Joey to add more air to his basketball in the fall.
What is cooling that makes air contract.
500
An approach to illustrates ideas, processes, and objects so that they are easier to understand. The particle theory is an example in that it helps explain how particles behave.
What is a scientific model?
500
The name of the process where a solid becomes a gas.
What is sublimation?
500
What stays the same when something changes phase (for example, ice melting into water).
What is mass? The amount of particles doesn't change.
500
This is the reason that aquatic life in a lake can survive very cold winters
Ice floats on top of water, can helps insulate the rest of the lake.
500
The change in temperature that led to power lines snapping.
What is cooling?