Vocabulary
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Properties of Matter
Measuring Matter
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100

 the upward force of a liquid or air that keeps things afloat?

What is buoyancy?
100

Color, texture, and shape are all ____________ of matter.

What is properties?

100

Has a fixed size, but not a definite shape.

What is a liquid?

100

You'll get this if you multiply the length by the width of a rectangular object.

What is area?

100

Matter that has a definite shape and takes up a definite amount of space

What is a solid?


200
How much space an object takes up

What is volume?

200

To measure matter, scientists use the standard unit in the ________________  __________________.

What is metric system?

200

Has a definite shape and a fixed size.

What is a solid?

200

100 centimeters is equal to this

What is one meter or 10 decimeters?

200

Matter that has a does not have a definite shape and does not take up a definite amount of space

What is a gas?

300

The amount of matter making up an object

What is mass?


300

A gas does not have a definite _______________.

What is shape or volume?

300

Has no fixed size and no definite shape

What is a gas?

300

Scientists use this system to measure matter.

What is the metric system?

300

Matter that does not have a definite shape but does take up a definite amount of space

What is a liquid?


400
Anything that has mass and takes up space

What is matter?


400

The particles in a ______________ move farther apart from one another than in a solid or liquid.

What is gas?

400

All matter has ___________________ and takes up space.

What is mass?

400

10 meters is equal to this.

What is 1 decameter?
400

A measurement that describes the number of unit squares that cover a surface

What is area?

500

The measure of the pull of gravity between an object and Earth

What is weight?


500

Adding ________________ energy causes air particles to move more quickly.

What is heat?
500

Matter can exist as a _____________, liquid, or ________________.

What are solid and gas?

500

This is the fraction that compares how much you'd weigh on the moon with how much you weigh on Earth/

What is 1/6th?

500

The amount of matter in a given space

What is density?