States of Matter
The form of water that Louie and Avery experienced while driving through Maine.
What is snow?
The force responsible for moving objects downward.
What is gravity?
This property can be tested by touching an object to see if it feels rough or smooth.
What is texture?
The action is the most important for citizens to prepare for a hurricane.
What is making sure they have batteries, canned food, water, and a safe location?
Scientists do this after making observations in an investigation.
Collect and record data
The state of matter that keeps its shape.
What is a solid?
What you use to melt the chocolate chips when you don't have a stove/oven.
What is energy from the Sun?
This is the property of matter that describes how hot or cold something is.
What is temperature?
Type of weather condition is described as a long period of rain, snow, or sleet?
What is precipitation?
An inference is...
What is a guess or conclusion based on observations and background knowledge?
The state of matter that Avery and Louie experience while driving through Georgia and Florida.
What is liquid?
Type of energy can you use to cook food in a solar oven.
What is solar energy?
This is the property of a material that describes whether it can float or sink in water.
What is buoyancy?
The reason why temperature changes throughout the day.
What is the Sun’s energy heats up water, land, and air even when the area is in the shade?
Senses you use when making observations.
What are sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell?
The properties of snow and rain.
What is snow is a solid that keeps its shape, and rain, a liquid that takes the shape of the container?
When an ice cube melts in the sun.
What is a change in states of matter?
This property of matter describes how much space something takes up.
What is volume?
The type of precipitation forms when raindrops freeze before hitting the ground.
What is hail?
The difference between an observation and an inference.
What is an observation is something you directly see or measure, and an inference is an explanation of why it happens based on previous knowledge?
The state of matter when water takes shape of the container it is in.
What is a liquid?
The force that is used when something blows away.
What is wind?
This property refers to how easily a material can be scratched or dented.
What is hardness?
One-way meteorologists predict weather patterns, such as temperature and precipitation, from day to day?
What is by studying weather data and patterns from previous days?
Timmy said this about the comparison of water in a measuring cup and a graduated cylinder?
What is the volume is the same, but it will look different in the different sized containers?