Matter Vocabulary
Everything that has mass and takes up space
What is Matter
What will happen if you keep increasing the temperature of a liquid?
It will boil and become a gas.
These are the 3 main states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, and gas?
Ice cubes changing into water is caused by what?
What is heating?
Which of the following is an example of a physical change? a. Water freezing into ice. b. A piece of wood burning. c. A toy car rusting. d. Zinc producing hydrogen gas when mixed with water
water freezing into ice
How a substance interacts with fire
What is flammability?
This is the basic shape of a liquid.
What is no basic shape (it takes the shape of its container)?
Pancake syrup is in this state of matter.
What is a liquid?
Adding heat to a pot of water will change the liquid into what state?
What is gas
What change has occurred when a nail rusts?
chemical change
This term refers to a characteristic or feature of a substance.
What is a property?
This gas produced by a bath bomb sinks downward because it is denser than surrounding air. (3 possible answers)
What is carbon dioxide, nitrogen, or argon?
An ice cube is in this state of matter.
What is solid?
This is one example of a chemical change we have seen in class.
Possible answer: What is mixing baking soda and citric acid?
When baking soda and citric acid are mixed in water, these visual signs show a chemical reaction is occurring.
What are gas bubbles forming/fizzing?
This property describes how much mass or matter is packed into a specific amount of space.
What is density?
If a gas smothers an open flame and causes it to go out, it exhibits this property.
What is being non-flammable (or having no flammability)?
Steam is in this state.
What is a gas?
Are ice and water made up of the same matter? Explain.
Yes. They are both made out of H2O.
What happens to the mass of water as it turns into a gas?
It stays the same.
This type of matter consists of only one type of material or particle throughout.
What is a substance?
A combination of 2 more substances that can be easily separated
Mixture
Think of a glass of soda. The bubbles are an example of this state of matter.
What is a gas?
During a chemical reaction, these starting materials interact to form brand new products.
What are reactants?
Two household powders that react to form gas bubbles when combined in water belong to these two chemical families (we watched videos about them).
What are acids and bases?