Describing Matter
The three most common forms of states of matter.
What are solids, gases, and liquids?
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A matter that has a definite shape and a definite volume.
What are solids?
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A matter with a definite volume but no definite shape.
What is a liquid?
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A matter that has no definite shape and no definite volume.
What is a gas?
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The change in state of a liquid into a gas?
What is vaporization?
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The fourth state of matter.
What is Plasma?
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Why are particles in a solid close together?
What are the attractive forces between the particles that are strong and hold them close together?
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How can liquids change their shape?
What is the particles in motion in the liquid state of a material is faster than the particle motion in the solid state.
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Gases have air as a mixture of the elements_________, _________, ________,________, _________.
What are nitrogen, oxygen, argon, and carbon dioxide?
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The two types of Vaporization?
What is evaporation and boiling?
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Three measurements you use to describe matter.
What are mass, volume, and density?
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Are all solids the same.
What is no?
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What is a measurement of a liquid's resistance to flow?
What is Viscosity.
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Gases don't have definite volumes or definite shapes like solids and liquids.
What is the distance between the particles differs?
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Vaporization that occurs within a liquid.
What is boiling?
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The two main factors that determine the state of matter.
What are particle motion and particle forces?
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solids that can have different particle arrangements.
What is carbon?
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The attraction between similar molecules, such as water molecules.
What is cohesion?
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As particles move faster, such as when matter goes from the solid state to the liquid state, the particles.
What is the particles' move farther apart?
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Vaporization that occurs only at the surface of a liquid.
What is evaporation?
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Change the speed and direction of a particle's movements.
What is a collision?
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A solid doesn't change its shape.
What is the particles are close together.
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The uneven forces acting on the particles on the surface of a liquid.
What is surface tension?
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The state of a substance that is normally a solid or a liquid at room temperature.
What is vapor?
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The change in state from a gas to a liquid?
What is condensation?
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