High School Science M-Step Practice

If the average movement of the particles in a sweater increase, what will happen to the temperature of the sweater?

• It will decrease

• It will change after a long delay

• It will not change

• It will increase

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Which of the following states of matter has a definite shape?

• solids only

• liquids only

• liquids and gases only

• solids and liquids only

When liquid lemonade is placed in the freezer, its temperature slowly drops. Its molecules move less and less until they can only vibrate in a rigid structure.

Another way to describe this process is that thermal energy is __________ the lemonade causing it to become a __________.

• cooling; liquid

• heating; solid

• freezing; solid

• freezing; liquid

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The diagram shows heat being removed from a substance, causing

• it to form a liquid as its particles move farther apart

• it to form a liquid as its particles more closer together

• it to form a solid as its particles move farther apart

• it to form a gas as its particles more closer together

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Which of the following is a matter phase in which molecules are arranged in a matrix and close together?

• liquid

• solid

• gas

• all of these

Jamal has a bowl of ice cream. He leaves it in the sun for too long and it melts into a liquid. Jamal then places the liquid ice cream into a freezer that is set at 5°F.

Which of the following best explains how the liquid ice cream will change in the freezer?

• The liquid ice cream will lose heat energy and freeze into a solid.

• The liquid ice cream will gain heat energy and vaporize into a gas.

• The liquid ice cream will gain heat energy and freeze into a solid.

• The liquid ice cream will lose heat energy and vaporize into a gas.

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Meredith takes a glass of water outside on a hot summer day and leaves it there for several hours. When she returns, part of the water has evaporated and there is less water in the glass. What kind of state change did some of the water go through to make it disappear?

• It changed from a gas to a liquid.

• It changed from a solid to a gas.

• It changed from a liquid to a solid.

• It changed from a liquid to a gas.

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Measuring the average energy of motion of the particles in a substance is the same as measuring the substance's

• pressure.

• temperature.

• heat capacity.

• mass.

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Which of the following is a matter phase in which the molecules of a substance fill whatever size container they are placed in?

• liquid

• gas

• solid

• all of these

When heat is added to or removed from a substance, it may change its state. What state will most likely result if heat is added to a liquid?

• It will change into plasma.

• It will change into a solid.

• It will change into a gas.

• It will change into a semi-solid.

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