This property of matter determines if one substance will float or sink in another; like when oil floats on top of water.
What is density?
The three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid and gas?
This is generally what causes matter to change from one state to another. HINT: remember that solids can become liquids, and the other way around.
What is temperature?
This property defines whether or not a substance can dissolve in liquid.
What is solubility?
This stops an object from moving.
What is friction?
A pan balance is used to classify objects in this way.
What is mass?
Three objects; a marble, a basketball and a bowling ball. This one has the greatest mass.
What is a bowling ball?
This scientific term means "a combination of two or more substances that maintain their identities."
What is a mixture?
Only one of the following substances could be classified as soluble. Salt, sand, plastic, iron filings.
What is salt?
If an object isn't moving, there are still forces acting on it. This is described in Newton's First Law, the law of _________.
What is inertia?
Three materials; wood, glass and iron. Two are not magnetic, but this one IS.
What is iron?
One should always wear these when dealing with liquids in the lab.
What are safety goggles?
The step in the water cycle where liquid turns to gas.
What is evaporation?
Put in the correct order; rubber, metal, conduct, insulate.
What is rubber insulate and metal conduct?
The three states of matter are solid, liquid and gas. However, there is a fourth, less-talked about state. Fire and lighting are two examples of it.
What is a plasma?
At room temperature, helium does not have a definite shape or volume, which means it is in THIS state.
What is a gas?
This terms means a physical structure or behavior that helps an organism survive.
What is adaptation?
In a solution, it is the substance that is dissolved.
What is the solute?
In a solution, it is the substance that the solute is dissolved in.
What is the solvent?
Sound waves are this type of wave that travels left to right, rather than up and down.
What are compression waves?
Liquids, gasses and solids share many properties, but this isn't one of them. Liquids like water and gasses like oxygen can do this, but solids can't.
What is flow?
The particles in this type of matter move the slowest of all... which actually makes it easier for sound to travel through it.
What is a solid?
A force is a push or a pull. When forces are balanced, it means that _________.
What is forces on an object are equal and opposite in direction?
You have a rubber-band. You pull back on it. The rubber band now has this kind of energy.
What is potential?
This type of organism eats other organisms to survive. That type of organism is called this.
What is a consumer?