Trivia Questions:
Category One: Solid Liquid Gas
1. Name the properties of a liquid
a. NO def shape, Def volume, particles packed in a medium tightness
2. Describe the properties of a gas
a. NO def shape, No def volume, very loose particles
3. Describe the properties of a solid
a. Def shape, Def volume, tightly packed particles
4. The resistance of a liquid to flowing is its
a. Viscosity
5. In which state of matter are particles packed tightly together in fixed positions
a. solids
Category Two: States of Matter
1. The change from liquid to solid, or the reverse of melting, is called
a. freezing
2. Condensation is the change of
a. A gas to a liquid
3. What is melting point?
a. The SPECIFIC point at which something melts
4. What is vaporization
a. The change from a liquid to a gas
5. The opposite of vaporization is called
a. Condensation
Category Three: What is it?
1. What is melting?
a. The change from a solid to a liquid
2. What is freezing?
a. The change from a liquid to a solid
3. What is evaporation?
a. Vaporization only on the surface
4. What is vaporization
a. The change from a liquid to a gas
5. What causes a state change?
a. An increase in thermal energy
Category Four: It’s a Gas!
1. Which state of matter undergoes changes in volume most easily?
a. gas
2. During the process of sublimation
a. A solid goes directly to a gas
3. In which state of matter do the particles spread apart and fill all the space available to
them?
a. Gaseous state
4. The greater the speed of gas particles in a container, the
a. greater the pressure
5. The force of a gas’s outward push divided by the area of the walls of the container is the
gas’s
a. pressure
Category Five: Those one science dudes…
1. Name the two scientists we learned about in this chapter
a. Boyle and Charles
2. A graph of Boyle’s law shows the relationship between
a. volume and pressure of a gas
3. Name the graph that shows that the pressure of a gas varies inversely with its volume
under constant temperature
a. Boyle’s law graph, it is curved
4. When the temperature of a gas at constant volume increases, its
a. pressure increases
5. When the temperature of a gas decreases at constant volume, its
a. pressure decreases
Category Six: Miscellaneous
1. The freezing point of water is the same as its
a. Melting point
2. The boiling point of a substance is affected by
a. Air pressure
3. The surface of water can act like a sort of skin due to a property of liquids called
a. surface tension
4. How does thermal energy effect a state change?
a. The more thermal energy an object has the faster the particles move, particles
increasing or decreasing in speed cause state changes
5. What three variables must you know when working with a gas?
a. Temperature, Volume, Pressure