Vocabulary
Anything that takes up space and has mass
What is matter?
Tells how an object feels to the touch
What is texture?
This will change matter from a solid to a liquid
What is adding heat?
The particles in this state of matter are packed tightly together
What is a solid?
In order to measure the mass of an object, you would use one of these.
What is a scale (balance)?
A state of matter that has a definite size and shape
What is a solid?
The description of how firm an object is
What is hardness?
When you do this, you change a gas to a liquid
What is removing heat or cooling?
This state of matter takes the shape of its container
What is a liquid?
This is a unit used to measure mass.
What is a gram?
(answers vary)
The amount of space an object takes up
What is volume?
These are used to tell matter apart from one another.
What are physical properties?
This must occur for a liquid to change to a solid
What is removing heat or cooling?
The particles in this state of matter move freely
What is gas?
You are measuring this when you determine the amount of space an object takes up.
What is volume?
A characteristic that can be observed using one or more of your senses.
What is a physical property?
Two physical properties of an apple.
What are round and red?
(answers vary)
When a liquid changes to a gas, it is because this has happened
What is adding heat?
Since the particles in this state of matter can slide past each other, we can pour it.
What is liquid?
This is a unit used to measure volume.
What is a mililiter?
(answers vary)
The change from a gas into a liquid
What is condensation?
Two physical properties of ice cream
What are cold and sweet?
(answers vary)
Adding heat does this to the particles inside the matter
What is speeds them up?
This state of matter will fill any container, no matter the size
What is a gas?
You can measure the mass and volume of matter as well as these two areas.
What are length and temperature?
(answers vary)