States of Matter
When a solid changes to a liquid it is called what?
A. Melting
B. Cooling
C. Sublimation
D. Evaporation
A. Melting
How does an increase in water temperature caused by the sun impact the water cycle?
A. It causes evaporation.
B. It causes precipitation.
C. It causes transpiration.
D. It causes condensation.
A. It causes evaporation.
A 100 kg rock is broken into five smaller rocks for a garden. What is the
total mass of all five smaller rocks?
A. 20 kg
B. 50 kg
C. 100 kg
D. 500 kg
C. 100 kg
Which describes a physical change?
A. Frying an egg
B. Cutting a piece of paper
C. Burning wood
D. Bubbles coming from a substance
B. Cutting a piece of paper
What is the name of the change when a liquid becomes a solid?
A. Melting
B. Boiling
C. Freezing
C. Freezing
How does a decrease in temperature turn water vapor back into a liquid?
A. through condensation
B. through transpiration
C. through precipitation
D. through evaporation
A. through condensation
Sam built a rocket using a full set of blocks. How would taking the rocket apart effect the
total mass of the blocks?
A. The total mass of the blocks would double.
B. The total mass of the blocks would be the same apart as together.
C. The total mass of the blocks would decrease because they are
together.
D.
The total mass of the blocks would increase because the blocks are apart.
B. The total mass of the blocks would be the same apart as together.
Which describes a physical change?
A. Sugar dissolving in tea
B. A bicycle rusting
C. Leaves being burned in a fire
D. A firework
A. Sugar dissolving in tea
What is an example of a solid?
A. Lemonade
B. Helium
C. Basketball
D. Water
C. Basketball
After a hot sunny day, a plant withers and dries up. Which explains how
this happens?
A. The hot sun causes respiration of the plant’s water.
B. The hot sun causes precipitation of the plant’s water.
C. The hot sun causes transpiration of the plant’s water.
D. The hot sun causes condensation of the plant’s water.
C. The hot sun causes transpiration of the plant’s water.
The mass of a piece of copy paper is 10 grams. Katie tears the paper into
4 equal sections. What is their combined mass?
A. 5 grams
B. 10 grams
C. 20 grams
D. 40 grams
B. 10 grams
How would the campers know that a chemical change has taken place?
A. The logs changed shape.
B. The rocks glowed when heated.
C. The wood became a different substance.
D. The ground absorbed heat from the coals.
C. The wood became a different substance.
A solid is a state of matter that has a(n)
A. indefinite volume and an indefinite shape.
B. definite volume and a definite shape.
C. definite volume and an indefinite shape.
D. indefinite volume and a definite shape.
B. definite volume and a definite shape.
How does water from the ocean return to lakes in the mountains?
A. Rivers bring water away from the oceans and to the mountains.
B. Underground water reservoirs move water from the ocean to the
mountains.
C. The rotation of the Earth causes evaporation of the ocean’s water,
which allows the winds to blow the moisture to the mountains.
D. The sun’s energy causes evaporation of the ocean’s water, which
condenses into clouds, precipitates, and refills bodies of water in the
mountains.
D. The sun’s energy causes evaporation of the ocean’s water, which condenses into clouds, precipitates, and refills bodies of water in the mountains.
Barb has a bucket of snow with a mass of 20 kg. After the snow melts, what will most likely be the mass of the bucket of water?
A. 15 kg
B. 20 kg
C. 35 kg
D. 40 kg
B. 20 kg
Which is a way that a piece of paper can go through a chemical change?
A. fold the paper in half
B. soak the paper in water
C. burn the paper with fire
D. cut the paper with scissors
C. burn the paper with fire
In which state of matter do the particles have the most energy?
A. Solid
B. Liquid
C. Gas
C. Gas
What must occur before clouds can form?
A. Water vapor must get warmer.
B. Water vapor must lose heat energy.
C. Precipitation must begin to fall and run off.
D. Transpiration must add water vapor to the atmosphere.
B. Water vapor must lose heat energy.
A group of students weighed a sealed jar full of heavy cream. Then they shook the jar until the cream separated, and then they weighed the jar again. Which of the following would BEST describe its weight?
A. The jar will have gained weight because some liquid changed to a solid.
B. The jar will have gained weight because shaking added energy to it.
C. The jar will have lost weight because of friction from shaking the liquid.
D. The jar will have kept the same weight because it did not gain or lose any matter.
D. The jar will have kept the same weight because it did not gain or lose any matter.
Which describes a chemical change?
A. sugar dissolving in tea
B. sunshine warming a sidewalk
C. scissors cutting paper into pieces
D. acid in the stomach digesting food
D. acid in the stomach digesting food