What’s the Matter?

Which of the following is NOT considered a liquid?

• A bar of soap

• Water

• Oil

• A can of pop

What causes a liquid to turn into a gas?

• Condensation

• Fast moving particles

• Evaporation

• Freezing

What is a liquid?

• Something wet

• A state of matter with no definite shape or volume

• Anything that can turn into a solid

• A state of matter with a definite volume but no definite shape

What is a solid?

• Something hard

• Something that can hurt you

• A substance with a definite shape and volume

• Some thing with a definite shape

The charged particles in plasma react strongly to an electromagnetic field.

• True

• False

Why are most gases transparent?

• Because their atoms are so widely spaced out

• Because they are gases

• Because they have no definite shape

• Because they have no definite volume

How is plasma created?

• Oxidation

• Condensation

• Ionization

• Freezing

What type of shape do the bonds in a solid produce?

• Regular lattice

• Grid like shape

• Amorphous

• Irregular shape

Which of the following is not a solid?

• Salt

• Brick

• Melted ice

• Ball

Gases exert pressure in all directions.

• False

• True