Vocabulary
Physical Change
Chemical Change
Matter
Properties
100

Anything that has mass (weight) and volume (takes up space).

What is MATTER?

100

Is a melted popsicle an example of a physical change?

What is YES? You can melt and refreeze a popsicle and it will still be a popsicle.

100

Is rust an example of a chemical change?

What is YES? You cannot change rust back into the metal is was before; therefore, it is a chemical change.

100

True or False. Air is matter?

What is TRUE?

100

You use these to help you identify the physical properties.

What are YOUR SENSES?

200

These are the characteristics of an object and you use your senses to identify them.

What are PHYSICAL PROPERTIES?

200

Is Alka-Seltzer and water an example of a physical change?

What is NO? When you mix Alka-Seltzer and water, bubbles form, which indicates a chemical change as taken place.

200

Name the two indicators of a chemical change.

What are color change, bubbles, temperature change, change in smell, change in taste, formation of a precipitate, production of light?

200

Name the 3 types of matter.

What are SOLID, LIQUID, GAS?

200

Name 2 physical properties of ice.

What are cold, hard, solid, wet, etc.?

300

Type of change where a new substance is created.

What is a CHEMICAL CHANGE?

300

Name a food that is an example of a physical change.

What is a salad or trail mix?

300

Name a food that is an example of a chemical change and explain why.

What is a cake, because you cannot turn a cake back into the eggs, flour, sugar, etc. that you mixed together?

300
These molecules can move freely and will take the shape of any container you put them in.
What is a LIQUID?
300

Name 2 physical properties of water.

What is liquid, wet, odorless, etc.

400

A type of change where the substance stays the same, but size and shape may change.

What is a PHYSICAL CHANGE?

400

Explain how water could be an example of a physical change.

What is freezing and melting water to and from ice is an example of a physical change?

400

True or False. Turning peanuts to peanut butter is an chemical change.

What is FALSE? To make peanut butter, you grind up roasted peanuts, so nothing new is being created.

400

These molecules move rapidly and freely where ever there is open space.

What is a GAS?

400

The scientific term for something that floats.

What is buoyant?

500

This type of matter keeps a definite shape.

What is a SOLID?

500

CHALLENGE (not a quiz question): Explain how the water cycle an example of a physical change.

What is YES, it is a physical change, because water changes from a liquid/solid when it precipitates, to a gas when it evaporates, then forms back into a liquid when it condensates. Then the process repeats again with the same substance, WATER!

500

CHALLENGE (not a quiz question) Explain how a rocket launch is an example of a chemical change.

What is the fuel combines with another chemcial to produce large volumes of a hot gas that propel the rocket into space?

500

Identify 1 example of a solid, liquid, and gas.

What is Solid- desk, book; Liquid- water, lemonade; Gas- helium, air?

500

CHALLENGE (not on quiz). How can we can separate sand from iron fillings.

What is with a magnet?