properties
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Everything you can hold, taste, or smell is made
of matter. Matter makes up everything you can
see, including clothes, water, food, plants, and
animals. It even makes up some things you
cannot see, such as air or the smell of perfume.
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Matter is anything that has mass and takes up
space.
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Mass: the amount of matter an object takes in.
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Volume: the space an object ocuppies. Another
word for volume is capacity
SOLID
LIQUID
GAS
Has definite shape.
They have their own
shape. If you move a
solid to another place
its shape doesn’t
change
Doesn’t have shape.
They take the shape
of the container they
are in
Doesn’t have shape. If
the container they
are in is open, it
goes out.
Particles are together
and move slowly
Particles are apart
and move fast
Particles are far apart
Has volume
Has volume
Expands to take up
whatever space is
available
SOLID
LIQUID
GAS
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A physical change is a change of matter from one state (form) to
another.
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Examples:
ice cream melting
liquid water freezing and becoming solid ice
cutting wood
clouds forming in the sky
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A chemical change is a change that forms a different kind of
matter.
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Examples:
baking a cake
burning wood
a nail rusting
photosynthesis
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