States of Matter
What is matter?
Anything and everything around us that takes up space.
What is temperature?
How hot or cold something is
What form/state of matter is ice?
Solid
What is it called when something changes from a liquid to a gas?
Evaporation
Mixtures can be made with matter from:
A. solids
B. Liquids
C. Gases
D. All of the above
D-all of the above
Name the three forms or states of matter.
Solids, liquids, gases
What is mass?
How much matter there is-how heavy or light something is
What do we call water that is a gas?
Water vapor
What is it called when matter changes from a gas to a liquid? (hint: some times it forms around the glass of a cold drink or on your windows)
Condensation
This type of mixture has a substance like flavored sugar that dissolves in a liquid such as water. This mixture is called a ___________________.
Solution
What is a liquid?
changes shape depending on the container
What is texture?
The way something feels
The states in which water exists on earth.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
What is it called when matter changes from a solid to a liquid?
Melting
What is formed when two or more forms of matter are put together?
A mixture
The particles are closely packed together. Is this a solid, liquid or gas?
Solid
What do we use to describe matter's properties?
Our senses-eyes, nose, touch, ears, taste
Water goes through a repeating cycle-solid, liquid, gas. Can a snowman go through a water cycle? Explain
Snow comes down from the clouds as precipitation. You take the snow to build a snowman (solid). The sun comes out, the temperatures rise which cause the snowman to melt (liquid). The liquid that has formed on the ground rises into the air (as a gas) back to the clouds...etc..
What has to happen for matter to go from a liquid to a solid?
Freezing
True or False: Substances or items in a mixture can be separated.
True
Name two examples of a gas
steam, water vapor, oxygen, carbon dioxide
What is size?
How big or small something is
What does heat or freezing do to a liquid such as water?
Freezing causes it to turn to a solid
Heat causes it to turn to a gas
What causes matter to change?
Heating, cooling, or freezing
A tool that can be used to separate a mixture of rocks, water, and soil.
strainer