States of Matter
What state of matter has a fixed shape and volume?
What is a solid?
What is the process called when a solid turns into a liquid?
What is melting
The ability to do work
What is Energy
This is simply a push or pull on an object.
What is force
What is the smallest building block of matter?
What is the Atom
This state of matter has a fixed volume but no fixed shape.
What is a liquid
What is it called when a liquid turns into a gas below its boiling point?
What is evaporation
What type of energy does a moving object possess?
What is kinetic energy
This type of force occurs when two objects touch.
What is contact force
Which particle inside the nucleus of an atom has a positive charge +
What is a proton
Name the state of matter where particles move freely and have no fixed shape or volume.
What is a gas
When gas changes into a liquid, this process occurs.
What is condensation
This energy is stored in an object due to its position or state.
What is potential energy
What type of force pulls objects toward each other due to their mass?
What is gravity
An atom becomes a positively charged ion when it does this.
What is losing one or more electrons
This state of matter acts like a gas but has particles so fast that they break apart and become electrically charged.
What is plasma
This type of change occurs when two or more substances chemically combine to form a new substance.
What is a chemical change
What is the law that states energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed?
What is the conservation of energy
Name the force that acts between objects with electric charges.
What is electric force
This is the property by which elements are arranged on the periodic table—from left to right and top to bottom—based on the number of these tiny particles found in their nucleus.
What is atomic number?
What is the process called when a solid changes directly into a gas?
What is sublimation
What is the term for when a substance changes from solid to vapor without passing through the liquid state?
What is sublimation
Name the type of energy released when an atom's nucleus is split apart or fused together
What is nuclear energy
This force attracts or repels objects with magnetic currents.
What is magnetic force
This type of particle is found orbiting the nucleus of an atom and has a negative charge.
What is an electron