Vocabulary
Anything that takes up space and has mass.
What is matter?
Has a definite size and shape.
What is a solid?
A solid turning into a liquid
Melting
What tool can you use to measure temperature?
a thermometer
What is mass?
Has a definite shape and takes the shape of its container.
Liquid
A liquid turning into a solid
Freezing
What tool can you use to measure mass?
A balance or a scale
How much space an object takes up.
What is volume?
Doesn't have a definite size or shape.
What is a gas?
A gas into a liquid
Condensation
How can you calculate the volume of a box?
Height X Length X Width
What is a physical property?
Particles are packed tightly together but vibrate in space.
What is a solid?
a liquid turning into a gas
boiling or evaporating
What tool can you use to measure the volume of a liquid?
A graduated cylinder
The amount of matter in a certain space size.
What is density?
Particles are linked together and slide past each other.
What is a liquid?
The temperature at when a solid becomes a liquid
Melting point
How can you measure a solid object that is not in a box?
Water displacement method in a graduated cylinder