Chemistry 101
Temperature & Stuff
Molecular Movement
Phase Changes
Science Facts
100

Hardness can be determined using this...

What is a scratch test?

100
Sample A has a higher kinetic energy than Sample B - this is the sample with a higher temperature.

What is sample A?

100

H2O is the formula for water and water is NOT found on the periodic table because it is an example of....

What is a compound?

100

These become faster gas particles that eventually become part of the air.

What are water particles?


100

This has mass, volume and is made up of moving atoms...

What are three characteristics of matter?

200

This type of molecule is the same in the gas phase and the solid phase...

What is a water molecule?
200

When this is added to a substance, it causes molecules to move faster and the temperature to increase.

What is thermal energy?

200

Molecules will move more slowly when...

What is when water cools and freezes?

200

This happens when a substance changes from a liquid to a solid.

What is the spacing of particles decreases and less kinetic energy?

200

This is the "stuff" that makes up all material...

What is matter?

300

If a substance is made up of only one type of atom, the substance must be called this...

What is an element?

300

John was playing basketball and was hit in the arm by the ball. His arm began to swell up. From the perspective of particle motion, explain why applying ice is a good remedy.

What is the ice will cause the particles to slow down and the swelling to decrease?

300

This is best described as the average speed of particles...

What is temperature?

300

A block of dry ice was placed in a plastic bag and stored in the freezer. The next day the block of dry ice was no longer in the bag.

What is sublimation?

300

After cooking bacon, I poured the hot bacon grease into a plastic cup. A few hours later, there was a piece of solid grease in the cup.

What is freezing?

400

the amount of three-dimensional space occupied by a substance or object, measured in cubic units like cubic meters (m^3) or liters (L

What is volume?

400

According to current scientific understanding, "everything" is made up of these...

What are atoms?

400

When steam cools and water molecules moves closer together during this...

What is condensation? 

400

A jet engine releases water vapor that is cooled by the surrounding air forming tiny drops of water known as contrails.

What is condensation?

400

Melted chocolate poured into a candy mold to make a definite shape.

What is freezing?

500

The measurement of how much matter an object has is known as...

What is mass?

500

This substance has mass and takes up space by having volume.

What is matter?

500

Describe the relationship between the kinetic energy of particles and temperature.

What is when kinetic energy decreases the temperature also decreases?

500

Menthol gas particles rose to the top of the Erlenmeyer flask, and then cooled forming menthol crystals on the watch glass.

What is deposition? 
500

Friday night is movie night. I took a hard stick of butter out of the fridge and put it in a pan to heat it up. When it was completely heated, I poured the butter onto my bowl of popcorn.

What is melting?

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