Name __________________________________________________________l

Date ___________________

MatterProperties and Changes

Before You Read
Define the following terms.
matter
significant figure

Chapter 2

__anything that takes up space and have mass________________

_number of important single digits in the coefficient of an expression in
scientific notation _____

Measure the height and arm length for five friends or family members. In
the space below, create an appropriate graph to represent the data you
collected.
Compare and contrast circle, bar and line graphs.
___________bar graphs are often used to show how a quantity varies across
categories, circle graphs are usually used to show percentages and line graphs
are used to represent the intersection of data for 2 variables
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Name __________________________________________________________l

Date ___________________

MatterProperties and Changes

Before You Read

Skim Section 1 of your text. Write three questions that come to mind from
reading the headings and the illustration captions.
1. _How is vapor formed? ___________
2. ___what are the states of matter? _______
3. ____what are the physical properties of matter __

Use your text to define each term.

states of matter
vapor

physical property

_classification of all matter that exists naturally on earth ___________

Gaseous state of a substance that is a solid or a liquid at room
temperature
_characteristics of matter that can be observed or measured without
changing the samples composition
Properties dependent on the amount of substance present __________

extensive property
intensive property
chemical property

_properties independent to the amount of substance present _______

__the ability or inability of a substance to combine with or change into
one or more other substances __________________________

Matcheach of the following states of matter with its physical description

solid

flows and fills the entire volume of its container

liquid

has definite shape and volume

gas

flows and has a constant volume

Define the following term.

_______________a source of information ________________
resource

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States of Matter

Compare the way the three common states of matter fill a container.

Use with pages 7172.

REAL-WORLD CONNECTION
Meteorologists (scientists who study weather) refer to water in the gaseous state in the atmosphere as water
vapor. Explain why this term is used.
____we used the words water vapor because that is a dispersion in the air produced by evaporation at
temperatures
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Physical and
Chemical
Properties of
Matter
Use with pages 7374.

Contrast intensive and extensive physical properties.

______extensive properties are dependent on the amount of the substance
present and physical properties are independent to the substance ____
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List several physical properties and explain why they are used more than
chemical properties in the identification of objects.
____physical properties like color or hardness are easier to observe than the
chemical properties, that is why they are used more often
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Accept all reasonable responses. Possible answers:

Observing
Properties of
Matter
Use with pages 7475.

Compare the properties of water at room temperature with water that

has a temperature greater than 100C.
__water turns into gas when the temperature is greater than 100 c
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