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States of Matter Date:____________________

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1. What is matter? Choose the best answer. 6. Water's chemical formula is "H2O." What does
A. Anything that is solid this mean?
B. Anything that takes up space A. Water is composed of hydrogen molecules and
C. Anything that has a fixed volume oxygen molecules
D. Anything that can be seen B. A gram of water contains 20 hydrogen atoms
C. Each water molecule contains two hydrogen atoms
2. In what way are liquids and one oxygen atom
different from solids? D. Water molecules cannot be split into smaller pieces

7. What is the basic shape of a liquid?

A. Liquid molecules are lighter than solid molecules A. A sphere

B. Liquids are made of atoms; solids are made of B. The same shape as a gas, only rounder
molecules C. A cube
C. Liquids don't have a fixed shape; solids do D. Whatever the shape of its container is
D. Liquids are always denser than solids
8. How can you remove energy from matter?
3. What happens to the chemical structure of water A. By increasing its volume
when it changes state? B. By lowering its temperature
A. Water molecules break apart to form individual C. By increasing its pressure
atoms D. By boiling it
B. Water molecules harden into ice molecules
C. Water molecules melt into gas molecules 9. Gases have a tendency to expand. What's the
D. Nothing happens to the chemical structure best synonym for "expand?"
A. Collide
4. What will happen if you keep increasing both B. Spread out
the pressure and temperature of a liquid? C. Shrink
A. It will boil D. Boil
B. It will transpire
C. It will melt 10. Where would you find a Bose-Einstein
D. It will solidify condensate?
A. Inside stars
5. What do lightning and stars have in common? B. At the North Pole
A. Both have no electrical charge C. In a science lab
B. Both contain plasma D. Bose-Einstein condensates exist only in theory
C. Both have a fixed volume
D. Both contain all three states of matter