States of Matter
Question: What state of matter has a definite shape and volume?
Answer: Solid
Question 2: Name one way Indigenous communities use natural materials.
Answer: For specific purposes like arrowheads, tipis, birch canoes, and sage
Question 1: Give an example of a processed material
Answer: many
Question 1: What type of change is the water cycle—permanent or reversible?
Answer: Reversible
Question 1: What are the three main processes in the water cycle?
Answer: Evaporation, condensation, precipitation
Question 2: What is one word to describe the change of state from a liquid to a gas?
Answer: Evaporation
Question 3: What is the belief of Indigenous communities regarding the use of materials?
Answer: Only necessary materials should be used, and nothing should be wasted or used in excess
Question 2: Name an example of a natural material we use in clothing.
Answer: Wool or cotton
Question 2: Give an example of a permanent change in cooking.
Answer: Cooking an egg or other
Question 2: How do plants contribute to the water cycle?
Answer: Through transpiration, releasing moisture into the air
Question 3: Which state of matter has a definite volume but not a definite shape; it flows and takes the shape of any container it is in?
Answer: Liquid
What natural materials did Indigenous people make their tipis out of?
Animal skins and hides, rocks and logs
Question 2: Name an example of a natural material.
Answer: Processed materials do not occur in nature
Question 3: Explain a reversible change and give an example of something that can be reversed
Answer: reversible changes can change and go back to their original form. Melting ice cream can turn back into a liquid
Why is the sun important for the water cycle?
Answer: It provides the energy (heat) to change liquid water into a gas ( water vapor, which can then form a cloud and redistribute rain again on land.
Question 4: Which of the following is an example of a reversible change to a material?
Burning a log, processing natural gas into plastics, melting ice cream.
Answer: Melting ice cream
What natural material did the Canadian Indigenous people use to make their main mode of transportation on rivers?
birch trees
Question 4: How is wool used as a processed material?
Answer: We use wool and spin it into fibers that we dye and use in our clothing
Question 4: What is one word to describe the change in state from a solid to a liquid?
Answer: Melting
Question 4: Bobby states that clouds are areas of water vapor gas. Is this correct?
Answer: No, water vapor gets cool as it moves higher into the atmosphere and becomes water droplets. These water droplets are called Condensation and are not gas.
Question 5: What is one word to describe the change in state from a liquid to a solid?
Answer: Freezing
What is one thing that the medicine wheel represents?
directions, seasons, life stages, elements
Mary found a glass bottle on the beach and she picked it up and stated that she found a natural material. Why is Mary wrong?
Answer: Glass is made from a natural material (Sand) but it is processed to make glass
Question 5: What is the temperature at which a material changes from a liquid to a gas?
Answer: Boiling point
Question 5: When rain water flows downhill into rivers, lakes, and oceans we call this?
Answer: collection