Physical Properties of Matter
The force of gravity on an object
What is Weight?
What is grams?
The temperature at which a liquid changes into a gas.
What is Boiling Point?
Candle wax vs. metal nail
A characteristic used to describe matter that can be observed (such as texture, color, odor) or measured (such as mass, length, volume) without changing its composition.
What is physical property?
The amount of matter in an object.
What is Mass?
Volume can be measured using containers, like graduated cylinders the unit is...
What is milliliters or cubed centimeters.
The ability of a material to conduct/transfer heat
What is thermal conductivity?
An apple is dropped in water, will it sink or float?
What is float. (Its density is less than water)
Force of gravity pulling on mass that can change is measured in?
Newtons (N) or Pounds (lbs)
An object's mass divided by it's volume; a measure of how many particles are packed into a certain amounts of space.
What is density?
Finding the volume of a regular shape is used with
L x W x H
The ability to form a solution, typically water.
What is solubility?
You have two oranges: one with the peel on and one peeled. Which one floats?
What is the orange with the peel, because the peel has air pockets that lower its density?
How tightly matter is packed?
What is Density?
The quantitative relation between two amounts showing the number of times one value contains or is contained within the other.
What is ratio?
Find the volume of an irregular objects can be calculated with
What is water displacement?
Conductivity that allows electricity to pass through it.
What is electrical conductivity?
Two soda cans are dropped into water. The diet soda floats, but the regular soda sinks. What makes the regular soda more dense?
What is sugar, because it adds mass without adding much volume?
The ability of a substance to be rolled into a sheet.
What is malleability?
The amount of space an object occupies
What is volume?
The formular for density
d=m/v
The ability of a substance to be pulled into a wire.
What is ductility?
A giant steel ship floats, but a tiny steel paperclip sinks. Why does the ship float while the paperclip doesn’t?
What is shape and buoyancy — the ship’s hollow design spreads its mass over a large volume, lowering its overall density below water?
A chemical or physical property that helps identify and classify a substance.
What is characteristic property?