What Are Magnets?
A few materials are magnetic, but most are not. If an object is attracted to a magnet, what is the object made of?
A cardboard
B metal
C plastic
D wood
What is metal
The three states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas. Which process changes water vapor into liquid water?
What is condensation
Length is another physical property that can be observed. True or False
What is True
Maxim wants to measure the volume of a brick. Which instrument should he choose to measure the volume?
A Pan Balance
B Ruler
C Spring Scale
D Beaker
What is a ruler
Suzanne makes a tower out of six identical plastic blocks. Then she uses a pan balance to measure the mass of the tower. She finds that the tower’s mass is 72 g. What is the mass of each block?
What is 12 g
Paper clips are attracted to magnets. What property of paper clips does this illustrate?
A physical property
B chemical property
C geological property
D biological property
What is physical property
Joy placed an ice cube on a plate. The ice cube changed from a solid to a liquid. What happened to the amount of matter in the ice cube?
A It doubled.
B It tripled.
C It stayed the same.
D It decreased slightly.
What is it stayed the same.
Objects can be sorted into groups using properties. What is a physical property of an object?
A the number of different objects in a group
B the name of the person who owns the object
C the distance between a person and the object
D something that can be observed about the object
What is something that can be observed about the object.
All matter has certain properties. Which of the following can be classified as matter?
A the number 25
B a dream
C the day Monday
D a puddle of water
What is a puddle of water
Caleb has two identical rubber band airplanes. He puts one airplane on one pan of a balance. He takes the other airplane apart and places the parts on the other pan of the balance. Which claim tells what he will most likely observe about the pans of the balance?
A The pan with the airplane will be even with the pan with the parts.
B The pan with the airplane will be slightly lower than the pan with the parts.
C The pan with the airplane will be slightly higher than the pan with the parts.
D The pan with the airplane will be completely lowered, and the pan with the parts will be completely raised.
What is the pan with the airplane will be even with the pan with the parts.
Tiffany needs to bring an example of a magnetic object to class. She considers a few items around her house. Which of the following will she decide is attracted to a magnet?
A gold ring
B iron nail
C glass vase
D cotton T-shirt
What is iron nail
Jose has a pot full of water. He knows that water can change states when energy is added or removed. Which of the following actions would add energy to the pot of water?
A heating the water on the stove
B placing the water in the freezer
C leaving the water outside on a cold night
D pouring the water into a larger container
What is heating the water on the stove
During science class, the teacher displayed a glass containing a liquid. The teacher said the liquid was either water or colorless vinegar. Which physical property could the students use as evidence to identify that the liquid is vinegar?
What is smell
Kaleesha says that taste is not a property of matter. Which statement below best describes why Kaleesha is not correct?
A Taste does not have mass.
B Taste has a density less than water.
C You cannot measure the volume of taste.
D Taste is a physical property that can be described.
What is taste is a physical property that can be described.
Ben uses a balance to measure the mass of some snap-together blocks. The mass of a red block is 3 g, a blue block is 5 g, and a yellow block is 7 g. He then makes a toy building using three of each type of block. If he measures the mass of the building, what would it most likely be?
What is 45 g
Magnets generate an invisible region in which magnetic forces act. What is the name for this region around the magnet that can attract materials?
What is field
Water changes states when energy is added or taken away. What happens to water vapor when energy is taken away?
A It melts into a solid.
B It freezes into a liquid.
C It condenses into a liquid.
D It evaporates into a solid.
What is it condenses into a liquid
Objects can be sorted using physical properties that can be measured. What property of an object can be measured using a pan balance?
What is mass
Kaylie is describing the physical properties of an orange and a lemon. Which two physical properties can she determine without using any measurement instruments?
What is odor and taste
Ammon puts seven identical blocks on a balance. He finds that their total mass is 42 g. He then removes three blocks and measures the remaining mass. What most likely is the mass of the remaining blocks?
What is 24 g
A magnet can be made by wrapping wire into a coil and passing an electric current through it. What is the name for this type of magnet?
What is electromagnet
Water is matter. All matter is made of particles. Which statement best describes how water particles are arranged in different states of matter?
A The particles in a gas are farther apart than the particles in a solid.
B The particles in a gas are closer together than the particles in a solid.
C The particles in a solid are farther apart than the particles in a liquid.
D The particles in a gas are closer together than the particles in a liquid.
What is the particles in a gas are farther apart than the particles in a solid.
Dottie has a blue plastic set of alphabet letters. She decides to sort the letters using a physical property. Which claim tells what property she should use?
A She should use color.
B The letters should be sorted by hardness.
C Odor is the best physical property to use.
D The shape of the letters should be used to sort them.
What is the shape of the letters should be used to sort them
Darlene places a small cube of wood into a beaker filled with water. The wood floats on top of the water. Which of these best explains why the wood block floats?
A Most objects will float on water.
B The wood block has less mass than the water.
C The water has more volume than the wood block.
D The wood block has a density that is less than that of water.
What is the wood block has a density that is less than that of water.
Joshua has a bag of identical blocks. He makes a toy building using 15 of the blocks and puts it on the left side of a balance. He puts a handful of blocks on the right side of the balance. The right side sinks down. What reasoning explains why this most likely happened?
A He has more blocks on the left side.
B He has more blocks on the right side.
C Both sides have the same number of blocks, but combining them adds slightly to the mass.
D Both sides have the same number of blocks, but combining them takes away slightly from the mass.
What is He has more blocks on the right side.