Measuring properties
What is temperature?
A physical property could you use to describe a fine piece of china.
What is fragile?
The ability of matter to dissolve in a liquid
What is solubility?
A measurement of the amount of matter in an object.
What is mass?
Particles that are held together very closely and are strong and difficult to break.
What is a solid?
What metric unit of measure is used to describe volume?
What is a milliliter?
What is the sense of taste?
This is a material that transfers heat or electricity easily
What is a conductor?
A measure of how much space an object takes up
What is volume?
Particles that move past one another and take the shape of its container.
What is a liquid?
This is measured in grams or kilograms.
What is mass?
two physical properties of a golf ball
What are white, spherical, divited, bumpy, etc.?
This is a material that stops or slows the flow of energy, such as electricity or heat.
What is an insulator?
Define weight
What is a measure of gravitational force on an object
Particles that have lots of space between them.
What is a gas?
What is weight?
Three ways to describe the physical properties of an object.
What are taste, touch, sight, smell, or hear?
This is the ability of an object or material to be pushed or pulled by a magnet.
What is magnetism?
This is a measure of how closely packed an object’s particles are
What is density?
Describe how to determine the volume of a paper clip.
Use a graduated cylinder with water in it. Read the measurement. Place the paper clip in the cylinder and then read that measurement. Subtract the difference and you have the volume of the paper clip.
What are newtons and a spring scale?
Senses are used to describe physical properties that involve size and amount. True or False
What is false?
This is the way light bounces off an object
What is reflectivity?
This is is an object’s resistance to sinking.
What is buoancy?
If I have three cubes that all measure 3.5 cubic inches. One is made of lead, the other is made of wood, and the other is made of paper. What do they have in common?
They all have the same volume.