Properties and Matter

Review for Unit Test

What are the three states of matter?

Water

Is a substance found in nature as a liquid, solid, and gas

Solid

-has a definite shape and volume.

Gas

Has no definite size or no definite shape It's usually invisible.

Liquid

has a definite volume but takes the shape of its container.

As my mother boils water in a pan for noodles, the amount of water

decreases.

When an ice cube melts, its state of matter changes from

A solid to a liquid

How do you change water from a liquid to a solid?

Decrease the temperature

What tool do you use to measure the volume of a liquid?

Graduated cylinder

What would happen to a glass of ice cubes after it has been sitting in the sun

a while? The ice would melt.

What

are

Physical

Properties

of

Matter?

Physical proprieties of matter are properties that can be measured or observed without changing the chemical makeup of the matter. Examples include size, shape, color and texture.

Hand lenses

Are used to view small objects more closely.

You can compare the texture of two small objects by looking through a hand lens.

An object's hardness, taste, and texture are examples of

properties