Matter & energy
Silly non-science definitions
Measuring matter
States of matter (not talking about Texas)
A very moving experience
100
The ability to do work or cause change.
What is energy?
100
Anger coming through a very small opening.
What is whining?
100
The amount of space that matter takes up.
What is volume?
100
The three basic states of matter.
What are solids, liquids and gases?
100
Distance divided by time is the formula for this.
What is speed (or velocity)?
200
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
200
A fruit that also means that a young man can't put a ladder up against a young woman's window and take her away in the middle of the night to run off and get married without anyone's parents knowing about it.
What is canteloupe?
200
This will make the weight of an object different, even though its mass is the same no matter what planet or satellite it is visiting.
What is gravity?
200
It has n shape of its own. It takes on the shape of its container.
What is a liquid?
200
This is the location (or "point") we use to figure out if an object has moved.
What is a reference point?
300
We use these two types of properties to identify, describe and classify matter.
What are physical and chemical properties?
300
The fact that they each have a BIG hole in them and are permanently resting at the bottom of an ocean.
What is, "What do the Titanic and Osama bin Laden have in common?"
300
This is the formula for calculating volume, and you have used it in math class for rectangular prisms.
What is length times width times height? (V = l x w x h)
300
It has a definite volume and a definite shape - and its atoms may be moving some, but not as much as the atoms of a liquid or a gas.
What is a solid?
300
Speed in a given direction - it's a synonym for speed and starts with the letter "v."
What is velocity?
400
A single kind of matter that has distinct physical and chemical properties, and it starts with the letter "s."
What is a substance?
400
They live in a tank and die before you can get too attached to them - and they're also the snack that smiles back.
What are goldfish?
400
The physical property that relates the mass and volume of something - in other words, how heavy it is based on the number or atoms that are packed into the space it takes up.
What is density?
400
The temperature at which a solid turns to a liquid - and this temperature will vary depending on what solid substance we're thinking about.
What is the melting point?
400
A change in speed or direction.
What is acceleration?
500
It's made from 2 or more substances. You put them together in the same place but they don't chemically combine or bond together chemically. It starts with the letter "m."
What is a mixture?
500
A girl gets these when she wears a bikini to the beach and sits down with no blanket underneath her. It's also the name of SpongeBob's squirrel friend.
What are sandy cheeks?
500
Mass divided by volume - this formula was written on the board for you the last time you took a Science DCA.
What is the formula for calculating density, or how do you get density?
500
It has no definite shape or volume. Its particles will spread apart to fill all space available to them.
What is a gas?
500
This is the system we DON'T use to measure distance or speed when we're doing a science investigation. This system uses inches, feet, yards and miles.
What is the customary system? (We only use the METRIC system of measurement for science.)