What are the three states of matter?
Solid, Liquid, and Gas.
How do you find the volume of a solid?
Length X Width X Height
L X W X H
What determines whether an object will sink or float?
The density of the object.
What does this picture show?
Containers of molecules for a solid, a liquid, and a gas.
What is a physical change?
Any change in position, size, shape, or temperature of a substance that does not change the substance as a whole.
Name a substance that you can find naturally in all three states of matter.
Water
What do you use to measure the volume of a liquid?
Graduated cylinder.
What is the density of water?
1
What is a mixture?
1 or more substances dissolved in another.
True or False: You are causing a physical change when you mix salt and water?
True: because of the parts of a mixture do not change and can be separated.
What is matter?
Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
How do you find the volume of an object using water displacement?
Record the volume of the water first, then drop in the object and record the new volume measurement. Then subtract the 1st from the 2nd.
How do you find density?
Mass divided by volume.
What is a solute?
A substance that is dissolved in another.
What is a chemical change?
When particles of one substance are changed in some way to form particles of a new substance with different properties.
Which system do scientists use to measure matter?
Metric system.
When finding the measurement of a liquid in a graduated cylinder, what level do I need to be on?
Eye-level with the water level.
In our density experiment, why did the oil float on top of the other substances?
Because the oil was less dense then the other substances.
What is the solvent?
A substance that takes in or dissolves another substance.
What are two chemical changes caused by a metal reacting to oxygen in the air?
Rust and tarnish.