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What physical property of matter can you measure with cubic centimeters?
Volume is a physical property of matter and is measured with cubic centimeters.
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What measurement will change if an object is taken from Earth to the moon?
The weight of an object will change if taken from the Earth to the Moon.
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What is water vapor?
Water vapor is water above the boiling point.
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Give an example of a physical property.
Color, shape, texture, etc.
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Give an example of a physical and chemical change.
Physical change:Chopping wood (properties stay the same) Chemical change: Burning wood (properties change)
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Which has a greater density? 50 pounds of paperclips or 50 pounds of cement?
50 pounds of cement has a greater density than 50 pounds of paperclips.
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In what state of matter do particles move the slowest?
Solid
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Describe the arrangement and motion of particles in a solid.
Particles are very close together and do not move very fast enough.
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Describe the arrangement and motion of particles of a liquid.
Particles can slide past each other and move fast enough to break some of the attraction between them.
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Describe the arrangement and motion of particles of a gas.
Particles are far apart from one another and move fast enough to break away from each other in many different directions.
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What is volume?
Volume is the amount of space an object takes up.
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True or False: A substance's melting point is the same as it's freezing point.
True.
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What is an example of a chemical property?
Wood is flammable.
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Describe the arrangement and motion of particles in plasma.
Particles move like particles of gases but plasma particles have electric charges.
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How does a physical change of an object change the mass of the same object? i.e. if you crumple a piece of paper
The mass does not change.
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The dome at Academic Hall at SEMO has changed from shiny copper to a greenish color. Is this a physical or chemical change? Explain.
It is a chemical change because the substance has changed.
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How is plasma different from gas?
The particles in plasma have electric charges
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What happens to a substance in a chemical change?
In a chemical change, a substance changes into a new substance.
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What does the word malleable mean? Is it a physical or chemical property?
Malleable is bendable, and can be shaped with a hammer. It is a physical property.
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What are the four states of matter?
Solid, liquid, gas and plasma.
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What is a solid? i.e. volume and shape
A solid has definite shape and volume.
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What is a liquid? i.e. volume and shape
A liquid has definite volume but no definite shape.
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What is a gas? i.e. volume and shape
A gas has no set shape or volume.
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What is plasma? i.e. volume and shape
Plasma has no set shape or volume.
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