Vocabulary
Phases of Matter
Mixtures and Solutions
Potpourri 1
Potpourri 2
100

Anything that has mass and takes up space

What is matter?

100

This substance has a definite shape and define volume.

What is a solid?

100

A combination of 2 things is called this.

What is a mixture?

100

When a rock is placed in water, it sinks to the bottom of the container. This happens because

What is the rock is more dense than the water?

100

Which mixture could you BEST separate with a filter?

a. Salt and pepper

b. Rocks and wood chips

c. Sugar and iron filings

d. Sand and water

 

What is d. Sand and water?

200

the amount of matter something has

What is mass?

200

This has no definite shape, but does have a definite mass and volume

What is a Liquid?

200

What is it called when one substance completely dissolves in another substance?

What is a solution?

200

Matter is anything that has __________________________ and __________________________

What is mass and space?

200

The particles in a _____ are the farthest apart and move the fastest.

What is a gas?

300

The amount of space an object takes up.

What is Volume?

300

Atoms packed closely together in this state and they vibrate in place

What is a solid?

300

Water and sugar mixed together is an example of what kind of mixture?

What is a homogenous mixture

300

At an object’s boiling point, a ___________ changes to a ____________

What is liquid to a gas?

300

You observe a puddle of water after a rainstorm.  What happens to the tiny particles of water as the puddle evaporates?

What is they move farther apart?

400

this is the temperature at which a substance goes from a liquid to a gas

What is boiling point?

400

If enough heat is added to a liquid it become this state.

What is a gas?

400

a type of mixture that allows the components to be seen as two or more phases are present

What is a heterogenous mixture?

400

Mass is never ____________, it just changes ________________.  

What is mass is never lost, it just changes form?

400

 

Your science teacher crushes a can of soda. 

What has changed about the can? 

a. Its shape

b. Its mass

c. Its weight

d. Its shape and weight

What is a. Its shape

500

This tells us how tightly packed particles are in an object.

What is density?

500

When heat is added to a solid, it becomes this state of matter

What is a liquid?

500

What are the two components of a solution?

What are solute and solvent.

500

Name two ways to measure volume.

What is: 

  1. Length x Width x Height

  2. Water Displacement

500

Explain the difference between weight and mass on the moon.

What is If you go to the moon, your weight will change because the pull of gravity also changes. Your mass will remain the same ?

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