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Common Materials Properties
Part 1: Check Your Understanding
Choose the best answer for each question.
1. Which type of substance usually conducts electricity as a solid?
Metallic
Ionic
Covalent
2. Why can an ionic substance conduct electricity when it is dissolved in water?
Its particles become free to move.
It becomes a metal.
Its particles stop moving.
3. Which property describes a metal that can be drawn into a wire?
Brittle
Ductile
Soluble
4. Which statement is generally true of simple covalent substances?
They have low melting points and do not conduct electricity.
They are always hard metals.
They conduct electricity as solids.
Part 2: Word Bank Properties
Word bank: brittle, ductile, electrical conductivity, malleable, melting point, solubility, state, particles
5. The ability of a substance to allow electric current to pass through it is called ______________________________.
6. The temperature at which a solid changes into a liquid is its ______________________________.
7. A material that can be hammered or pressed into different shapes is ______________________________.
8. A substance that breaks or shatters instead of bending is ______________________________.
Match each description to the correct type of substance.
9. Usually shiny, malleable and ductile
10. Often has a high melting point and conducts electricity when aqueous
11. Usually has a low melting point and poor electrical conductivity
Metallic
Ionic
Covalent
Part 3: Apply Your Knowledge
12. Explain why a metal such as copper is useful for electrical wiring. Use at least two properties in your answer.
13. Compare metallic and ionic substances in terms of electrical conductivity and ability to change shape.
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