Physical Properties
What do we call anything that takes up space and has mass?
What is matter?
What tool do we use to measure mass?
What is a pan balance?
Name the three states of water.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
What change happens when heat is added to ice?
What is melting?
What metal do magnets attract?
What is iron?
Name two physical properties you can observe using your senses.
What are color, texture, odor, taste, or shape?
Mass is measured in which units?
What are grams or kilograms?
What do we call water in the gas state?
What is water vapor?
What process turns liquid water into a gas?
What is evaporation?
What happens when two north poles are pushed together?
What is they repel?
What physical property describes how easily something can bend or dent?
What is hardness?
How do you find the mass of an object using a pan balance?
What is “add known masses until both sides balance”?
Which state of matter has a definite shape and definite volume?
What is a solid?
What change happens when heat is removed from water vapor?
What is condensation?
What do we call the invisible area around a magnet where the magnetic force acts?
What is a magnetic field?
Which property tells how much space an object takes up?
What is volume?
A box is 3 cm × 3 cm × 3 cm. What is its volume?
What is 27 cubic centimeters?
What happens to particles in a liquid compared to particles in a solid?
What is “they are farther apart and slide past each other”?
During freezing, do particles speed up or slow down?
What is slow down?
Name one factor that can weaken a magnet’s pull.
What are barriers or distance?
A student describes a rock as “smooth, gray, oval, and heavy.” What reading skill are they using to understand physical properties?
What is identifying details?
You put a rock in water. The water rises from 50 mL to 62 mL. What is the rock’s volume?
What is 12 mL (displacement method)?
Why does a gas fill the entire container it's in?
What is “its particles move quickly and spread far apart”?
Explain why you see water droplets on the outside of a cold glass.
What is “water vapor loses heat, condenses, and becomes liquid again”?
How do more coils of wire affect an electromagnet?
What is they make the magnetic field stronger?