Vocabulary
Processes
Water Cycle
What Happens When
Definitions
100
Anything that has weight or takes up space.
What is matter?
100
The process of going from a solid to a liquid.
What is melting?
100
Water in it's gas form. Although invisible it is the air around you.
What is water vapor?
100
A crayon is left out on a hot summer day. What might happen?
It may melt. The bonds of the solid weaken and turn into a liquid (wax).
100
Matter exists as a solid, liquid, or gas.
What are the states of matter?
200
Matter that has its own shape and volume.
What is a solid?
200
The process of going from a liquid to a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
When water from oceans, lakes, rivers, streams, and even puddles gets heated and rises as water vapor.
What is evaporation?
200
A cold beverage that is left out on a hot day and looks as though it is sweating.
Water vapor hits the cold can and condenses back into a liquid (water).
200
Tiny drops of condensation on a blade of grass.
What is dew?
300
Matter that does not have its own shape, but has its own volume. Matter that takes the shape of its container.
What is a liquid?
300
The process of going from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
300
When water vapor in the air cools and turns back into water forming clouds.
What is condensation?
300
Water gets all over your favorite sweatshirt. Your mom tells you to hang it outside. Why?
Water will evaporate and cause the water to turn to water vapor. The sweatshirt will be dry.
300
The amount of matter in something.
What is mass?
400
Matter that does not have its own shape or volume. It takes up as much space as you give it.
What is a gas?
400
The process of going from a liquid to a solid.
What is freezing?
400
When water in clouds falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
What is precipitation?
400
Mrs. C. boils a sweet liquid and then it cools into an even sweeter solid. What happened?
The liquid boiled st such a high temperature that it cooled at room temperature.
400
How much space matter takes up.
What is volume?
500
The smallest part of a solid, liquid, or gas.
What is a molecule?
500
The process of going from a solid to a gas without becoming a liquid.
What is sublimation?
500
The never ending process that recycles the Earth's water.
What is the water cycle?
500
A mixture with two or more kinds of matter mixed evenly. An example would be Kool-Aid and water. The mixture cannot be separated easily.
What is a solution?
500
Adding or removing heat.
What changes the states of matter?
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