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States of Matter Webquest

Standards:

S8P1. Students will examine the scientific view of the nature of matter.

c. Describe the movement of particles in solids, liquids, gases, and plasmas states.

d. Distinguish between physical and chemical properties of matter as physical (i.e., density, melting point, boiling point) or chemical (i.e., reactivity, combustibility).

e. Distinguish between changes in matter as physical (i.e., physical change) or chemical (development of a gas, formation of precipitate, and change in color).

Task:

Save the document and type in your answers.

Click on the following website to answer questions 1-5:

http://www.uvm.edu/~inquiryb/webquest/sp03/Barksdale/

1. What are the three commonly known states of matter?

2. Give two examples of each of these states of matter.

3. What is the most common reason for matter changing its state?

4. What is the type of matter that changes its form very easily?

5. Draw a picture showing the particle arrangements of each state.

Solid / Liquid / Gas

6. Click on following website and list the 4th and 5th states of matter. http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_states.html

7. Click on the following link – after you have placed all items into the correct category, click on quiz. What was your score?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks2bitesize/science/activities/gases.shtml

Click on the following link to answer questions 8-11:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/ages/9_10/changing_state.shtml

8. At what temperature does water become a solid?

9. At what temperature does water become a gas?

10. What happens to the container if you increase the temperature past the gas state?

11. Take the quiz, what was your score?

12. Click on the following link to fill in the table below and answer questions13 and 14:

http://www.iknowthat.com/ScienceIllustrations/matter/science_desk.swf

Definite shape
(yes or no) / Definite volume
(yes or no) / Describe molecule movement
Solid
Liquid
Gas

13. What is the melting point of water?

14. What is the boiling point of water?

Number your paper 1-12 (ON THE BACK) with the following as Solid, Liquid, or Gas

1. Contents in bathtub
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4. Contents inside cup
______/ 5. Exhaust from car
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7.
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10.
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______/ 12. Contents inside
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