Tools
Mass
Volume
Density
Potpourri
100

What is the best tool to measure the mass of a solid?

What is a triple beam balance

100
Define mass.
What is the amount of matter in an object.
100
Define volume.
What is the amount of space an object takes up.
100
Define density.
What is the amount of mass in a certain volume of matter.
100

What determines whether an object will sink or float in water?

What is relative density.

200
What metric unit of measurement is used to find the mass of a solid?
What is the gram.
200
The amount of mass in a certain volume of matter is known as its _________________________.
What is density.
200
What metric unit of measurment is used to measure the volume of a solid?
What is cubic centimeter.
200
Compare the density of an ice cube to the glass of water it is floating in.
What is the ice cube is less dense than the water.
200

What are the physical properties that salt and sugar keep even after they dissolve in water?

What are taste and mass

300

What tool is used to find the volume of a tissue box?

What is a ruler or meter stick

300

Explain why your mass is the same wherever you go.

What is because the amount of matter in your body does not change by moving from one place to another. (you are not adding or removing any molecules when you move from place to place)

300

What metric unit is used to measure the volume of a liquid?

What is mililiter

300
Explain how you might compare the density of several liquids.
What is pour them in a container and observe the way they form layers.
300

How might you prove that air has volume?

What is blow up a balloon

400
What tool is used to measure the volume of a marble?
What is a graduated cylinder.
400
Explain how you could change the mass of a pizza.
What is eat some of it.
400

What is the formula for measuring the volume of a solid?

What is length times width times height

400
An unpeeled orange floats in water, but a peeled orange sinks. What can you conclude about the density of the unpeeled orange?
What is the unpeeled orange is less dense than the peeled orange.
400

A density tower created layers: honey on the bottom, then dish soap, water, and oil on top. This tells us that water is ...

What is more dense than oil but less dense than dish soap and honey. 

500

What tools would you need to in order to calculate the density of a small rock?

What is a triple beam balance, a graduated cylinder, and water (and maybe a calculator)

500
Name an item that does not have mass.
What is there are none. Everything has mass.
500
What is the volume of a box that is 10 cm long, 3 cm wide, and 1 cm high?
What is 30 cu cm.
500
If two solids have the same masses and different volumes, they have __________________ densities.
What is different.
500

We can prove that the mass of salt stays the same after it dissolves by following what process?

What is measure the mass of the salt on a triple beam balance before we place it in water. After it dissolves, evaporate the water using a hot plate. Remeasure the mass of the salt.

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