Forms of Matter
What is everything made of?
Matter
Name a solid.
reasonable answers
What can make matter change forms? Example How can I change a solid to a liquid?
heating and or cooling
What happens to a liquid when it is heated?
It becomes a gas.
How can you change a pencil?
You can break it or sharpen it.
What is matter?
Anything that has mass and takes up space
Name a liquid
reasonable answers
What do we say is happening to a solid that is turning into a liquid?
Its melting
Overtime what happens to the water in puddles?
The water evaporates.
How can you change a watermelon?
You can cut it.
What are the 3 forms of matter?
Solids, liquids, and gases
Tell me something about gases.
Gases do not have their own size or shape. Gases take the size and shape of what its in. Gases take up all the space inside its container.
Name a solid that can easily melt.
What does the word evaporate mean?
To go from a liquid to a gas
How can you change paper?
You can fold it, cut it, tear it etc.
The amount of matter in an object is called ?
Mass
Tell me something about solids.
It has its own size and shape. It has mass and takes space.
Name a solid that will not easily melt. We talked about this in class.
Metal
What happens when a gas is condensed?
It forms a liquid
What two conditions can change the state of matter
Temperature and Pressure
Matter has mass and ?
takes up space
Tell me something about liquids.
Liquids take up space and have mass. Liquids take the shape of the container.
The amount of space a liquid takes up is called?
Volume
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If energy is added to a substance what will happen?
The particles will start to move more and it may melt or evaporate.