Name: ___________________________ Date:__________________ Number

Use your textbook to answer these questions.

1. What is matter? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2. Give an example of matter. _____________________________________________

3. What is mass? ______________________________________________________

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4. What is a solid?

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5. What are the three states of matter?

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6. What is a liquid?

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7. If you pour a liquid from one container to the other will the matter stay the same?

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8. What is a gas. ________________________________________________________

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9. Give an example of matter that changes from a solid to a liquid to a gas.

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10. Which state of matter keeps its shape? ____________________________________

11. Which states of matter take the shapes of their containers?

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12. How can matter be changed from a liquid to a solid?

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13. What would happen if all the ice in the world melted?

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Answers:
1. Matter is everything in the universe that has mass and takes up space.
2. Air is an example of matter.
3. Mass is the amount of matter something contains.  A large heavy elephant has more mass than a leaf.
4. The three states of matter are solid, liquid, gas.
5. A solid is matter that has a definite shape and takes up a definite amount of space.
6. A liquid is matter that takes the shape of its container and takes up a definitie amount of space.
7. If you pour a liquid from one container to the other the matter will stay the same.
8. A gas is matter that has no definite shape and takes up no definate amount of space.
9. An ice cube is an example of matter that changes from a solid to a liquid to a gas. An ice cube melts and the liquid becomes water vapor.
10. A solid is the state of matter that keeps its shape.
11. Liquids and gases are states of matter that take the shape of their containers.
12. Taking away heat can change a liquid to a solid.
13. If all the ice in the world melted, the oceans would rice 180 feet and the Statue of Liberty would be completely under water except for the torch and crown.