Physical Properties
This is a characteristic you can observe or measure without changing what a substance is.
What is a physical property?
You would use a balance or scale to measure this property.
What is mass?
This state has a definite shape and a definite volume.
What is a solid?
Liquid water changes into water vapor.
What is evaporation?
A wooden block floats in water because its density is _____ than the density of water.
What is lower?
Color, texture, odor, and shape are all examples of this.
What are physical properties?
This tool should be used to measure the volume of water.
What is a graduated cylinder?
This state has a definite volume but takes the shape of its container.
What is a liquid?
Water vapor cools and becomes liquid water.
What is condensation?
Drops form on the outside of a cold glass. The water came from this source.
What is water vapor in the air?
This property tells how much matter is in an object.
What is mass?
This property describes the amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
The particles in this state are spread far apart and move freely.
What is a gas?
Liquid water becomes solid ice.
What is freezing?
An ice cube melts in a warm room. What happens to the amount of matter?
It stays the same.
A rock has a mass of 40 g and a volume of 20 cm³. This property compares its mass to its volume.
What is density?
To find the volume of a regular solid, you would measure these.
What are its dimensions?
The particles are close together but can move past one another. Name the state.
What is a liquid?
An ice cube turns into liquid water.
What is melting?
Which would cause water to evaporate: putting it in a freezer or heating it on a stove?
Heating it on a stove.
A student records an object's color, mass, and volume. What do all three measurements have in common?
They are all physical properties.
A student wants to compare how tightly matter is packed into two objects. What property should they calculate?
What is density?
Which state of matter has neither a definite shape nor a definite volume?
What is a gas?
Adding or removing this can cause matter to change state.
What is energy?
Water vapor changes into liquid water when energy is removed. Name the process.
What is condensation?