Vocabulary
Question: What word means anything that takes up space and has weight. Also everything is made of it?
Answer: Matter
Question: What cup feature is best for keeping thermal energy from leaving the cup?
Answer: Lid
Question: Liquids, Solids, and gasses represent the 3 what?
Answer: States of Matter
Question: When atoms like helium or oxygen are heated what 2 things do they do?
Answer: Move faster and spread apart.
Question: Which state of matter keeps its own shape while it's atoms move in place
Answer: Solid
Question: What word describes how much an object weighs?
Answer: Mass
Name 2 features the Fancy Cup had that the regular cup didn't that made it better at keeping the Pink Drink cold.
Answer: Lid, thick plastic walls
When water molecules heat up spead apart and move really fast sometime molecules break away and move our of the water into the air. This process is called what?
Answer: Evaporation
When the sealed pop bottle was put into the cold water we saw the bubble go down. What happen to the are inside the bottle to create this extra space?
Answer: The air becomes more dense or the molecules moved closer together.
Question: Which state of matter changes shape to fit the container it's in?
Answer: Liquid
Question: What word describes how much space an object takes up?
Answer: Volume
Question: In the cup contender chanllenge explain how we found the temperature change for each of the cups
Answer: Subtract the starting temperature from the ending temperature
When water evaporates and turns into a gas it will eventually attach onto something and turn back into a liquid. What is this process called?
Answer: Condensation
When atoms like helium or oxygen go from a warmer temperature to a cooler temperature how will their behavior change?
Answer: They will move closer together and slow down.
Question: Which state of matter has no fixed shape and spreads out in all directions?
Answer: Gas
Question: What word tells us how tightly packed the matter inside an object is?
Answer: Density
Question: Why scientific terms explains why the regular plastic cup lost weight over the 24 hours it sat on the counter.
Answer: Evaporation
Water is made up of groups of atoms and those atoms (like hydrogen and oxygen) group together to from what?
Question: Sometimes the soap bubble would blow up too fast pop right away because the molecules spread apart too fast and moved too quickly. What was the cause of this?
Answer: The water was too hot.
What process turns liquid water into invisible gas floating in the air?
Answer: Evaporation
Thermal Energy is a fancy science for what?
Answer:Heat
Question: Some of the cups had see through wall that made harder for the cup to keep it's temperature? Another word for see through is what?
Answer: Transparent
Question: What causes water molecules to go from a solid, to a liquid, and finally to a gas?
Answer: Heat or Thermal Energy
Question: What process turns water gas into liquid droplets on a cool surface?
Answer: Condensation