Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Physical Education
Measurements
What's the matter?
Mathematics
100
A measure of the size of a body or region in three-dimensional space.
What is Volume?
100
Freezing, cutting, dissolving, melting, crushing, folding, bending, and molding.
What are examples of physical changes?
100
D = M/V
What is the equation for Density?
100
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is Matter?
100
Which has more mass? A brick or a sponge?
A brick.
200
Occurs when one or more substances change entirely so that they have different chemical properties.
What is a Chemical Change?
200
A characteristic of a substance that does not involve a chemical change.
What is a Physical Property?
200
Length x Width x Height.
What is the equation for Volume of a solid object.
200
True or False: Mass and Weight mean the same thing.
False!!
200
A box has a length of 3 inches, a width of 6 inches, and a height of 5 inches. What is the volume?
90 cubic inches.
300
The ability of matter to change into new matter that has different properties.
What is a Chemical Property ?
300
A change of matter from one form to another without a change in chemical properties.
What is a Physical Change?
300
Grams per cubic centimeter.
What is the unit of density for a rectangular object.
300
A measurement of inertia.
What is Mass?
300
What is the density of an object that has a mass of 16 grams and a volume of 4 cubic centimeters?
4 grams per cubic centimeter.
400
The tendency of an object to resist being moved.
What is Inertia?
400
Color, shape, odor, weight, volume, texture, state, and density.
What are examples of physical properties?
400
Expressed in Kilograms (kg), grams (g), and milligrams (mg).
What is Mass?
400
A measure of the gravitational force on an object.
What is Weight?
400
If the density of an object is 8 grams per cubic centimeter and the volume is 2 cubic centimeters, then what is the Volume?
16 grams.
500
The curve at the surface of a liquid.
What is a Meniscus?
500
True or False: When a substance undergoes a physical change, its identity stays the same.
True!
500
Expressed in Newtons.
What is Weight?
500
Everything in the universe that you can see is made up of some type of this.
What is Matter?
500
How many bottles of water can Lake Erie fill?
483 trillion liters.
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