This type of matter has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
100
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This is the temperature at which water begins to freeze.
What is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or 0 degrees Celsius?
100
Suppose you are helping a friend move. You lift a very large box and notice that it's very light. You then lift a small box and notice that it's very heavy. What could explain this occurrence?
What is density? The large box may be full of light items such as pillows, that are not very dense. The small box may be full of heavy items such as marbles, that are very dense.
100
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Anything that takes up space and has mass.
What is matter?
100
The amount of matter something contains.
What is mass?
200
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This type of matter has a set volume, but not a set shape.
What is a liquid?
200
This is the temperature at which water begins to boil.
What is 212 degrees Fahrenheit or 100 degrees Celsius?
200
How could you change the state of water?
Either heat it up or cool it down.
200
Kim is making a surprise Christmas gift for her mother. She needs material of a definite size and shape. Which state of matter must the material be in?
What is a solid?
200
The amount of space that matter takes up.
What is volume?
300
State of matter that no definite shape and takes up no definite amount of space.
What is gas?
300
Beth is making healthy banana popsicles. She mixes up her popsicles and places them in trays. She then puts the trays in the freezer. How will Beth's mixture become frozen popsicles. How will the particles inside the mixture begin to change?
Once the popsicles have been in the freezer long enough to drop to 32 degrees Fahrenheit they will begin to freeze. The particles will start to slow down and become more tightly packed together.
300
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What variable determines the state of matter water will be in?
What is temperature?
300
Give at least 3 examples of physical properties.
What is volume, mass, density, color, taste, sound, texture, etc.
300
The amount of matter compared to the volume.
What is density?
400
This state of matter is not often heard about. The particles in this state move faster than any other state of matter.
What is plasma?
400
Ms. Routt is cooking macaroni and cheese and is stirring it with a plastic spoon. She notices that the plastic spoon is starting to change shape and bend. What caused the spoon to change it's shape?
The plastic spoon reached its melting point by being so close to the heat and began to melt/bend.
400
We learned about this item in the Brainpop video. It is used commonly in movies and plays for scary scenes. It is one of the few items that changes directly from a solid into a gas.
What is dry ice?
400
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Which animal would have more mass?
cow, elephant, dog, or mouse?
What is an elephant?
400
Marco is measuring density of various items. He wants to know, which item will have the HIGHEST density?
Balsa wood, aluminum, plastic, iron
What is iron?
500
Rachel is grouping different kinds of matter together. Which item does NOT belong with the other states of matter.
lemonade, water, soil, coffee
What is soil?
500
When moisture in the air begins to cool. condense, and collect together on a window pane it begins to change from one state of matter to another. Tell me which two states of matter you are observing in this change.
What is gas and liquid?
500
Explain how metal can be bent and changed into different shapes?
It can be heated up to its melting point and bent.
500
The particles in this state of matter move at a steady pace and slide past each other.
What is a liquid?
500
George wants to show that physical properties can be used to tell different foods apart. What physical property would be most useful to tell the difference between mint ice cream and spinach?
mass, color, taste or volume?