Basics of
Matter
Matter
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is Matter?
Which property of matter measured how resistant a material is to scratching, bending, or denting?
What is Hardness?
What does thermal conductivity measure?
What is thermal energy or how materials allow heat to flow through them?
Which spoon was a thermal conductor?
What is the metal spoon?
Do particles have Mass?
Yes, particles are matter and have mass.
How do we measure Matter?
What is Mass? All Matter has Mass.
What property of matter observes one substance dissolving in another?
What is Solubility?
What is a physical property?
What is an observable characteristic that is used to identify a material?
What kinds of materials allowed electricity to flow through them to light the lightbulb?
What are Electrical Conductors?
Which is harder, concrete or chalk? How do you know?
What is concrete, because when chalk is scratched across the concrete it leaves a mark.
What is an example of each state of matter?
Answers May Vary. What is rock(solid), water(liquid), air(gas)?
Give two examples of thermal conductors and two examples of thermal insulators.
Answers may vary. What is Aluminum, Iron, and Copper? What is Glass, Cloth, and Rubber?
What kinds of metals are magnetic?
What is Iron, Nickel, and Cobalt?
How do you test if something is magnetic?
What is hold it up to a magnet?
What is the purpose of an electrical insulator?
What is to protect people from being electrocuted; to stop the flow of electricity?
What will happen to salt when stirred into water?
What is it will dissolve?
What is the difference between electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity?
What is, Electrical Conductivity is the measure of how well electricity can move through a material. Thermal Conductivity is the measure of how well heat can move through a material?
Give two examples of electrical conductors and two examples of electrical insulators.
Answers May Vary. What is Metal such as copper, gold, silver, and iron? What is Plastic, Rubber, Wood, and Glass?
Which material is Hardest? Rubber Band, Paper Clip, Plastic Spoon, Washer, Crayon.
What is a Paper Clip? The harder material will scratch the softer ones; a paper clip scratches all the other materials.
Why might someone use hardness to distinguish gold from pyrite?
What is because gold has greater hardness than pyrite; when using a scratch test, the gold will scratch the pyrite because it is harder?
What is the particles in a solid are close together and vibrate in place. Particles in a liquid are farther apart and move more freely than particles of a solid. particles of a gas move around more freely than both solids and liquids.
Using the following properties of matter, describe a piece of chalk. Color, Hardness, Magnetism, Texture
Answers May Vary. What is White, Low Hardness, Not Magnetic, Smooth or Chalky texture?
Explain why electricians use rubber gloves? Use our vocabulary words to explain your answer.
What is because rubber is an electrical insulator which means they will stop the electricity from flowing through them?
Say whether the following substances are soluble or insoluble: Sand, Lemon Juice, Vegetable Oil, Salt.
What is sand and vegetable oil are insoluble, lemon juice and salt are soluble?
Name all of the properties of matter that we mentioned from the textbook.
What is Texture, Color, Shape, Reflectivity, Magnetism, Hardness, Electrical Conductivity, Thermal Conductivity, Solubility?