Vocabulary
Matter
Science Words
States of Matter
Physical Properties
100

This is the process of a liquid turning into a gas.

What is evaporation?

100

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter?

100

This word means to sort or group objects based on shared characteristics.

What is classify?

100

Ice, wood, and metal are examples of this state of matter.

What is a solid?

100

The ability of a material to allow heat or electricity to flow through it.

What is conductivity?
200

To mix a solid into a liquid so it disappears is to __________.

What is dissolve?

200

Matter can exist in this form that has a definite shape and volume.

What is a solid?

200

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

What is matter?

200

Water, juice, and milk are examples of this state of matter.

What is a liquid?

200

How resistant a material is to being scratched or broken.

What is hardness?

300

The process of a gas cooling and turning into a liquid.

What is condensation?

300

Matter can exist in this form that takes the shape of its container but has a definite volume. 

What is a liquid?

300

A trait of a substance that can be observed without changing what it is. Examples include color, shape, and texture.

What is a physical property?

300

Steam, oxygen, and carbon dioxide are examples of this state of matter.

What is a gas?

300

The ability of a surface to bounce back light. ex: mirror.

What is reflectivity?

400

To get larger or spread out.

What is expand?

400

Matter can exist in this form that has no definite shape or volume.

What is a gas?

400

The amount of space an object takes up.

What is volume?

400

When a liquid changes into a gas, the state of matter ________.

What is changes?

400
The ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance, like sugar in water.

What is solubility?

500

This word describes the process when a substance spreads out to fill the space available, like air in a balloon.

What is expand?

500
Name the three states of matter.

What are solid, liquid, and gas?

500

The measure of how hot or cold something is.

Temperature.

500

Explain how evaporation and condensation are part of a cycle in nature.

What is evaporation turns liquid into gas, and condensation turns gas into liquid, repeating in the water cycle?

500

The property that allows some metals to attract or repel one another.

What is magnetism?

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