Properties of Matter

Both brick and glass are often used in building houses. Which of the following properties is most different when comparing a brick paver and a sliding glass door?

• shape

• hardness

• temperature

• state of matter

2. A rubber band is made of rubber and is often used to hold things together. Which property of a rubber band will stay the same when the rubber band is stretched?

• length

• mass

• shape

• width

At 10 degrees Celsius (°C), a continuous body of matter fills the bottom of a container. This matter is yellow in color and has a definite volume. How would this matter be classified?

• gas

• solid

• plasma

• liquid

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Diego carefully places ten marbles into a graduated cylinder filled with water, making sure no water splashes out. He then measures how high the water level rises and divides this value by ten. He then repeats this process using ten pennies. What property of the marbles and the pennies can Diego now directly compare?

• mass

• shape

• temperature

• volume

Kaitlyn grew bean plants outside in different soils for her school science fair. She completed her experiment three times. For each trial, Kaitlyn recorded the height of each plant daily and also wrote observations in her experiment log. Kaitlyn noticed that the second time she completed the experiment, her data was very different from the data in the other two experiments. Which of the following observations in Kaitlyn’s experiment log best explains the difference?

• She watered her plants the same amount each day.

• She followed her procedure very carefully each time.

• It rained for three days during the second experiment.

• The plants were all grown on the patio behind her house

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4