Matter Basics
The three types of matter
What are solids, liquids, gases?
True or False: some items contain more than one type of material
What is TRUE?
This is a type of visible physical change in which something gets smaller
What is a size change?
These are things we can see that help us describe matter
What are physical properties?
I noticed a banana smelled the same and stayed the same color even when I cut it into smaller pieces. I am noticing the physical type of these
What are properties?
A plastic toy is an example of this
What is a solid?
The chair you are sitting on has this many different types of materials
What is TWO? (metal, plastic)
This is a type of physical change in which something turns from clear to blue
What is a color change?
You can use your nose to do this to help you describe the physical properties of a fresh orange
What is smell?
If I told you I knitted you something soft, stretchy, and warm that went on your feet, I would have made you these
Socks
The air inside a beach ball is an example of this
What is a gas?
Your desk has this many different types of materials
What is THREE? (metal, wood, plastic)
Water boiling and changing to a gas (steam) is called this type of change
What is a phase change
Give an example of a word that describes the physical property of TEXTURE
what is rough, smooth, stretchy, stringy, bumpy, spiky, sharp, slick, slippery, lumpy, soft, hard, and lots more?
This is an educated guess about what you think will happen in an experiment you are planning
What is a hypothesis?
The milk you drink is an example of this
What is a liquid?
What is FOUR? (graphite, wood, metal, rubber)
These are visible changes that you can see, like changing the color of something by painting it, or making something smaller by cutting it
What are physical changes?
I could describe a marble by using the physical properties of SIZE and SHAPE, so I could tell you the marble is this and this
What are SMALL and ROUND?
A photo of a horse can only tell you which of these things:
- If the horse is nice
- What color the horse is
- If it is fun to ride a horse
What is what color the horse is? (physical property)