Name the physical property
Copper is able to be pulled into a thin wire. What is the name of this physical property?
What is ductile?
used to measure the volume of liquids accurately
What is a graduated cylinder?
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Name the 4 states of matter.
What is solid, liquid, gas, and plasma?
Whenever you are working with mystery liquids in the lab you should be wearing these.
What are goggles?
A student describes the surface of an object as being smooth. What physical property of the object is she describing?
What is texture?
Used to measure the amount of matter in an object.
What is a balance?
A characteristic of matter that can be observed or measured without changing the matter itself.
What are physical properties?
This state of matter has a definite shape and a definite volume.
What is a solid?
Name two physical properties that give us QUALITATIVE data.
What are...
color, shape, luster, texture, magnetism, conductivity, odor
What determines whether or not an object will float on water?
What is density?
Used to measure the amount of space a cube takes up.
What is a ruler?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
The particles that make up matter in this state have a lot of energy. Because the particles are so high-energy this state does not have a definite shape or a definite volume.
What is a gas?
(plasma is also acceptable)
a student enters the lab and the first thing he/she should do is
What is wait for teacher instructions?
Sugar seems to disappear when you add it to hot tea. What physical property describes what happens to sugar when it is added to hot tea?
What is solubility?
Used to put out small, electrical fires
What is a fire blanket?
The ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance.
What is solubility?
there is space in between the molecules and they can move around; takes the shape of its container
What is a liquid?
The name of the curved surface formed by a liquid being measured in a graduated cylinder.
What is meniscus?
A student uses their fingernail to scratch the surface of a rock. What property is being tested?
What is hardness?
To to find the volume of irregular shaped objects you need to use the displacement method, using this tool.
What is a graduated cylinder?
Describes how much mass is in a given amount of space. Describes how close together the atoms are in a substance.
What is density?
What is the difference between a plasma and a gas? Give one example of a plasma.
Plasma is a super hot, ionized gas. In a plasma, positively charged particles and negatively charged particles become separated.
ex: lightning, plasma tv
things that don't allow electricity to travel easily through are known as
What are insulators?