States of Matter
This state has matter packed most closely together, maintains its shape outside of a container, and can melt when enough heat is applied.
What is a solid?
What is evaporation?
This change occurs when matter changes something like shape or volume but its chemical properties remain the same. Some examples include butter melting or glass breaking.
What is a physical change?
This type of energy comes from the Sun; both light energy and heat energy are considered forms of this.
What is radiant energy?
This is the stage of the plant life cycle where a seed begins to sprout.
This state of matter flows freely and takes the shape of its container. It can also freeze or evaporate.
What is a liquid?
The change from a liquid to a solid.
This change occurs when matter changes from one substance to another. Some examples include food rotting or paper burning.
What is a chemical change?
This is electromagnetic energy you can see.
What is light?
This class of vertebrate is born from eggs in the water but lives on land and in water as an adult.
What is an amphibian?
This state of matter has the least tightly-packed particles, expands to fill its container, and can condense or be excited to a plasma state.
What is a gas?
The change from a solid to a liquid.
What is melting?
If you split a golf ball into two pieces, the shape will change and some color properties will change because the inside will be visible. However, this will remain the same even though the ball is now in two pieces.
What is its mass?
This type of energy can come from friction, light energy bouncing off of something, or other processes like fusion. This type of energy warms our planet.
What is heat?
This type of tree has needle-like leaves and doesn't have flowers. Instead, it delivers its seeds in cones.
What is a conifer?
This is the state of most matter in the universe: a highly excited state of gas that often gives off light and heat.
What is plasma?
The change from a gas to a liquid.
What is condensation?
Digesting food is this type of change.
What is a chemical change?
Energy is defined as the ability to do this.
What is work?
An animal without a backbone.
What is an invertebrate?
Anything that takes up space and has mass is called this.
What is matter?
The change from a solid to a gas, bypassing the liquid state.
What is sublimation?
Although the mass of an object doesn't change when gravity changes, this property does change when gravity changes.
What is weight?
This is the process of forcing atoms together; it is the process that powers stars.
What is fusion?
This giant ball of fire sits at the center of our solar system and powers our planet.
What is the Sun?