Properties
States of matter
Benefits of Properties
investigations
Matter
100
What is a property?
A characteristic that describes a material like buoyancy, texture, smell, etc.
100
What are the three sates of matter?
Solid, liquid, gas.
100
What property makes a life jacket useful.
Buoyancy.
100
What material didn't dissolve in cold water dissolved in hot water?
Hot chocolate
100
Give one important idea that you have learned and explain how this knowledge will change your life.
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200
What does the word absorbent mean?
The ability to soak up a liquid.
200
What is matter?
Anything that occupies space and has mass.
200
Why is it important that bricks are strong?
To support weight and the natural weather that occurs.
200
Why did you have to push the materials in our buoyancy (floating) experiment to ensure it was a fair test?
Surface tension with the plastic.
200
Give one idea that you have learned and explain how it will change your life.
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300
List three characteristics that are similar between sugar and salt?
Crystals, white, soluble
300
Identify two differences between a liquid and a gas.
Particles in a gas are further apart and move faster. Liquids have a definite volume and gases don't.
300
Describe a situation where knowledge of something being soluble is a benefit.
Sweeten foods.
300
Is earth soluble or insoluble? Why is this important?
Insoluble. Earth would not exist.
300

Give one idea that you have learned and explain how it will change your life.

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400
What property describes a materials ability to float?
Buoyancy
400
This state of matter has a definite shape and volume.
Solid
400
Why it the texture of a basketball helpful?
Good grip to control the ball.
400
Name two different characteristics between a sponge and a rock.
absorbant, dense, buoyant
400
Give one idea that you have learned and explain how it will change your life.
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500

List two properties of rock.

Hard, brittle, smooth

500
The particles in this state of matter vibrate and slide between each other.
Liquid
500
Why are anchors built out of metal? Describe using the word density.
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500
Why is it important to read the procedures before beginning the experiment?
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500
Give one idea that you have learned and explain how it will change your life.
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