PS Vocabulary Quiz 6 Study Tool

What is volume?

• The amount of matter in an object

• The amount of space an object or substance takes up

• The weight of an object on Earth

• The density of a substance

What does conservation mean in science?

• Protecting natural resources

• The principle that certain quantities, like mass or energy, stay the same in a closed system

• Changing matter into energy

• The process of evaporation and condensation

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What is pressure?

• The weight of a substance

• The force applied over a certain area

• The energy in a moving object

• The amount of space an object takes up

What is sublimation?

• The change of a substance from a solid to a liquid

• The change of a substance from a liquid to a gas

• The change of a substance from a solid directly to a gas without becoming a liquid first

• The deposition of minerals in rocks

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What is deposition?

• The change of a substance from a solid to a gas

• The change of a substance from a gas directly to a solid without becoming a liquid first

• The process of water evaporating into the air

• A type of precipitation

What is evaporation?

• The process in which a liquid changes to a gas, usually from the surface of the liquid

• Water falling as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

• The chemical breakdown of water

• The freezing of water into ice

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What is precipitation?

• The process of a liquid changing into gas

• Water that falls from the atmosphere to Earth’s surface, such as rain, snow, sleet, or hail

• The change of a substance from a gas to a solid

• Water absorbed by plants

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