Solids, Liquids & Gases
Adding or removing heat
Phase Changes
Vocabulary
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100

Has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape.

What is a liquid?

100

When a liquid is cooled it becomes what?

What is a solid?

100

Phase change of a solid turning into a liquid

What is melting?

100

Anything that has mass and takes up space

What is matter?

100

What happens to the temperature as a solid turns to a liquid.

It increases
200

Has a fixed volume AND shape

What is a solid?

200

When heat is added to a liquid it becomes what?

What is a gas?

200

Phase change of a slid turning into a gas

What is sublimation?

200

The forces that hold particles together

What are intermolecular forces

200

What are all particles always doing

Moving

300

In what state do molecules move extremely quickly and by bouncing off each other.

What is a gas?

300

When a gas is cooled it becomes a what?

What is a liquid?

300

Change from a liquid to a solid

What is freezing?
300
How much matter is in something (not the same as weight)

What is mass?

300

What is kinetic energy?

The movement energy

400

Another name for the states of matter

What are phases of matter?

400

What must happen for matter to change states?

It must gain or lose energy (heat or be cooled)

400

Phase change of a gas turning into a liquid

What is condensation?

400

How much space something takes up

What is volume?

400

What happens when an object's kinetic energy increases?

The particles move faster?

500

An unusual state of matter found in neon signs

What is plasma?

500

Draw the particle arrangements for a sold, liquid, and gas

Solid: Close together

Liquid: Middle

Gas: Far apart

500

When heat is added to a liquid and becomes a gas

What is evaporation/boiling?

500

When something expands because of heat

What is thermal expansion?

500

If heat is absorbed by water what does it turn into?

Gas