Particle Theory of Matter
States of Matter
Thermometer
Weird Water
Building Sense
100

All matter is made up of these.

What are particles?

100

The name of the transition from liquid to solid

What is freezing?

100

The units used to measure temperature in Canada.

What are degrees celsius?

100
The freezing point of Water.

What is 0 degrees celsius?

100

An intentional inclusion of a gap in a building to allow for thermal expansion.

What is an expansion joint?

200

What are the three main states of matter?

What are solid, liquid, and gas?

200

The name of the transition from a gas to a liquid.

What is condensation?

200

The term that describes when particles spread out.

What is expansion?

200

Temperature when water is densest

What is 4 degrees Celsius?

200

The reason why choosing appropriate materials for the climate you are building in is important.

What is thermal expansion?

300

Particles stop moving at this temperature.

What is -273.16 degrees celsius or absolute 0 or 0 Kelvin?

300

When matter shifts from one state to another it is called a ______.

What is a phase change?

300

It is what is happening to the liquid inside a thermometer when it cools down.

What is contraction?

300

The role that ice plays in keeping aquatic life alive in lakes during the winter.

What is insolates?

300

The reason that potholes are so common in Grande Prairie.

What is the freeze/thaw cycle where what freezes and expands then melts and soaks into the ground leaving a hole?

400

This change in temperature makes particles move more quickly.

What is heating?

400

It is what happens to energy of matter during melting.

What is absorbs energy?

400

Reason we should be careful when working with old liquid thermometers.

What is mercury?

400

The reason that water expands when frozen.

What is water is forms regular, hexagonal structures?


400

The change in temperature that requires Joey to add more air to his basketball in the fall.

What is cooling that makes air contract.

500

An approach to illustrates ideas, processes, and objects so that they are easier to understand. The particle theory is an example in that it helps explain how particles behave.

What is a scientific model?


500

The name of the process where a solid becomes a gas.

What is sublimation?

500

What stays the same when something changes phase (for example, ice melting into water).

What is mass? The amount of particles doesn't change.

500

This is the reason that aquatic life in a lake can survive very cold winters

Ice floats on top of water, can helps insulate the rest of the lake.

500

The change in temperature that led to power lines snapping.

What is cooling?