Measuring Matter
What is the process called at which a solid changes to a liquid?
What is melting?
What is the change in state from a gas to a liquid?
Condensation
How do you measure the volume of a liquid?
What is use a graduated cylinder?
Which property can be observed by seeing if an object sinks or floats?
What is density?
The process when water goes from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
What is the process at which a liquid changes to a solid?
Freezing point
How do you measure the temperature of something?
What is with a thermometer?
Name 2 measurable and 2 non-measurable physical properties of matter.
Measurable mass, volume, density, or size
Non-measurable color, smell, taste, or feel.
The particles in this vibrate back and forth in a very small space and are tightly packed together.
What is a solid.
The process when water vapor cools and turns back into liquid water.
What is condensation?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
How do you measure the length of a solid object?
What is with a ruler?
How can you compare the density of water with that of other kinds of matter?
What is If an object is less dense than water it will float. If it is more dense than water, it will sink.
These particles are not as far apart as those in a gas but are farther apart than the ones in a solid.
What are the particles in a liquid?
The temperature at which water evaporates or boils.
What is 100 degrees Celsius?
Sorting objects into different groups is called what?
Classifying
The amount of matter in something measured in grams is called what?
What is mass?
What is solid, liquid, and gas?
The temperature at which water becomes a solid is what?
What is 0 degrees Celsius?
What has to be taken away from water vapor for it to condense into liquid water?
What is thermal energy?
What is to stay on the surface of a liquid without expending energy?
What is to float?