Changes
Energy
States
Substances
Challenges
100

This is the process when hot water vapor fogs up a cooler mirror.

What is condensation?

100

Out of the three common states of matter, the one with the most energy.

What is a gas?

100

Name one place where plasma may be found. 

What is 

  • Lightning..!
  • The Sun (from Core to Corona)
  • Fluorescent Lights and Neon Signs
  • The Solar Wind
  • Auroras (Northern & Southern Lights)
100

List the three common states of matter from the slowest moving to the fastest.

What is solid<liquid<gas?

100

Why are bowling and beach balls different, scientifically speaking?

They can have the same volume but different mass due to density.

200

Temperature does this when substances change state at their melting and boiling points. 

What is the temperature remains constant?

200

Particles at higher temperatures have more _____energy

What is kinetic?

200

This is the fourth state of matter, a superheated gas made up of charged particles. 

What is plasma?  

200

Substances that evaporate easily are said to be ___

What are volatile substances?

200

A 2cm cube with a mass of 36 grams is made of: aluminum (2.7g/cm3), titanium (4.5g/cm3), vanadium (6 g/cm3), silver (10.5g/cm3), gold (19.4g/cm3)

What is titanium?

300
This is the name given when liquid changes into gas.
What is vaporization?
300

When a liquid is being warmed, this is the type of energy that is changing until the liquid gets to its boiling point.

What is kinetic energy?

300

State of matter where enough intermolecular forces are overcome for freedom of motion with no definite shape, but not enough to allow particles to spread out, so it has a definite volume. 

What is liquid?

300

State of matter where particles have enough energy for freedom of motion with no definite shape, as well as to spread out with no definite volume.  

What is gas?

300

When the cube in the box above is put in fresh water this happens.

What is sinks?

400

This is the process of water vapor changing directly into ice.

What is deposition?

400

This is what happens when there is a loss of potential energy in a liquid, causing it to lose its ability to flow and to take on a definite shape. 

What is freezing?

400

The state of matter where attractive forces are strong, particles are pulled close together, and there is definite shape and volume. 

What is a solid?

400

You are given a rock with a density of 5.6 g/mL.  This measurement means  

What is 5.6 grams of material fits in each mL?

400

With your team, demonstrate (act out, draw, etc) how particles behave as temperature increases.  You have two minutes to plan.

(Students should show that they move more rapidly and are spaced farther apart as temperature increases.)

500

This is what happens when dry ice changes directly to gas.

What is sublimation?

500

This is what happens to matter and energy during a change of state.

What is both are conserved (i.e. they are not created or destroyed)?

500

This is the measurement of how much resistance to flow a substance has. List a substance with low resistance, and one with high resistance.  

What is viscosity, water is low and honey is high?

500

This is the only substance on Earth that exists in all 3 states of matter in nature.

What is water?

500

Mrs. Piek thinks she will be transformed into a model if she moves to the moon.  Evaluate her reasoning, scientifically speaking.

First, let's talk body image.  Mrs P is gorgeous as she  is, right?  But the fact that she will weigh less on the moon (due to there being less gravitational pull) will not change her appearance because her mass will be unchanged.