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States of Matter Exploration

Explore how solids, liquids and gases behave. Choose the best answer, match examples, and explain your thinking.

Identify the states

1.Which description best fits a solid, such as a wooden block?
  • It keeps its own shape and its particles are close together.
  • It flows and takes the shape of its container.
  • It spreads out to fill all the space available.
2.Which example is a gas?
  • A frozen berry
  • Air inside a football
  • Milk in a glass
  • A metal spoon
3.Which two materials can change from a solid to a liquid when warmed?
  • Butter and chocolate
  • Sand and a stone
  • Air and oxygen
  • Juice and milk
4.Match each example to its state of matter.
  • A cube of ice
  • Cooking oil in a bottle
  • Air in a bicycle tyre
  • A puddle of rainwater
  • A wooden chopping board
  • Water vapour in the air
  • Liquid
  • Gas
  • Gas
  • Solid
  • Liquid
  • Solid
5.A gas can spread out to fill its container. What happens to the particles in a gas?

Changes and explanations

6.An ice cube is left in a warm room. Describe two things you would observe as it melts.
7.Write one everyday example of each state of matter: a solid, a liquid and a gas.
8.Explain how heating liquid water can make water vapour. Include the word “particles”.
9.Draw and label one solid, one liquid and one gas that could be found at home. Write the state beside each example.

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  • States of Matter Exploration, page 1 of 3: Identify the states

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  • States of Matter Exploration, page 2 of 3: Changes and explanations

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