Properties of Matter Directions: What do you know about the properties of matter? Answer each question, then, research to see if you were correct.
1. What is matter? 2. What are the three states of matter?
3. Which state holds its own shape?
4. What do you know about a gas's molecules?
5. What state of matter takes the shape of its container?
6. What do you know about a solid's molecules?
7. Name three solids.
8. Name three liquids.
9. Name three gasses.
10. All matter has takes up
1. What is matter? 2. What are the three states of matter?
3. Which state holds its own shape?
4. What do you know about a gas's molecules?
5. What state of matter takes the shape of its container?
6. What do you know about a solid's molecules?
7. Name three solids.
8. Name three liquids.
9. Name three gasses.
10. All matter has takes up
Answers & Comments
1. Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
2. The three states of matter are solid, liquid, and gas.
3. The state of matter that holds its own shape is a solid.
4. Gas molecules have high energy and move freely.
5. The state of matter that takes the shape of its container is a liquid.
6. Solid molecules are tightly packed, have low energy, and vibrate in fixed positions.
7. Three examples of solids are:
1. Iron
2. Diamond
3. Ice
8. Three examples of liquids are:
1. Water
2. Ethanol
3. Olive oil
9. Three examples of gases are:
1. Oxygen
2. Nitrogen
3. Hydrogen
10. All matter takes up space.