Matter

States of Matter

100

Question: What state of matter has a definite shape and volume?  

Answer: Solid

200

Question 2: What is one word to describe the change of state from a liquid to a gas?

Answer: Evaporation

300

Question 3: Which state of matter has a definite volume but not a definite shape; it flows and takes the shape of any container it is in?

 Answer: Liquid

400

Question 4: Which of the following is an example of a reversible change to a material? 

Burning a log, processing natural gas into plastics, melting ice cream.

Answer: Melting ice cream

500

Question 5: What is one word to describe the change in state from a liquid to a solid?

Answer: Freezing

Indigenous Use of Materials:

100

Question 2: Name one way Indigenous communities use natural materials.

Answer: For specific purposes like arrowheads, tipis, birch canoes, and sage

200

Question 3: What is the belief of Indigenous communities regarding the use of materials?

Answer: Only necessary materials should be used, and nothing should be wasted or used in excess

300

What natural materials did Indigenous people make their tipis out of?

Animal skins and hides, rocks and logs 

400

What natural material did the Canadian Indigenous people use to make their main mode of transportation on rivers? 

birch trees

500

What is one thing that the medicine wheel represents?

_{directions, seasons, life stages, elements}

Processed vs. Natural Materials:

100

Question 1: Give an example of a processed material

Answer: many

200

Question 2: Name an example of a natural material we use in clothing.

 Answer: Wool or cotton

300

Question 2: Name an example of a natural material.

Answer: Processed materials do not occur in nature

400

Question 4: How is wool used as a processed material?

Answer: We use wool and spin it into fibers that we dye and use in our clothing

500

Mary found a glass bottle on the beach and she picked it up and stated that she found a natural material. Why is Mary wrong?

Answer: Glass is made from a natural material (Sand) but it is processed to make glass

Reversible vs. Permanent Changes:

100

Question 1: What type of change is the water cycle—permanent or reversible?

Answer: Reversible

200

Question 2: Give an example of a permanent change in cooking.

Answer: Cooking an egg or other

300

Question 3: Explain a reversible change and give an example of something that can be reversed

Answer: reversible changes can change and go back to their original form. Melting ice cream can turn back into a liquid

400

Question 4: What is one word to describe the change in state from a solid to a liquid?

Answer: Melting

500

Question 5: What is the temperature at which a material changes from a liquid to a gas?

Answer: Boiling point

The Water Cycle:

100

Question 1: What are the three main processes in the water cycle?

Answer: Evaporation, condensation, precipitation

200

Question 2: How do plants contribute to the water cycle?

Answer: Through transpiration, releasing moisture into the air

300

Why is the sun important for the water cycle?

Answer: It provides the energy (heat) to change liquid water into a gas ( water vapor, which can then form a cloud and redistribute rain again on land. 

400

Question 4: Bobby states that clouds are areas of water vapor gas. Is this correct?

Answer: No, water vapor gets cool as it moves higher into the atmosphere and becomes water droplets. These water droplets are called Condensation and are not gas.

500

Question 5: When rain water flows downhill into rivers, lakes, and oceans we call this?

Answer: collection