States Of Matter Test Quiz
24 Questions
| Total Attempts: 474
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- 1.The process by which individual particles of a liquid escape from the surface and form a gas.
- A.
Melting point
- B.
Evaporation
- 2.A liquid changing to a gas is ___.
- A.
Vaporization
- B.
Heat
- 3.The ability to do work or cause change
- A.
Heat
- B.
Energy
- 4.The kinetic and potential energy of the particles of a substance
- A.
Thermal energy
- B.
Boiing point
- 5.Tells you whether a material is a solid, liquid, or gas
- A.
Freezing point
- B.
State of matter
- 6.Anything that takes up space and has mass
- A.
Liquid
- B.
Matter
- 7.Mass divided by volume
- A.
Density
- B.
Pressure
- 8.Thermal energy that flows from higher temperature to lower temperature
- A.
Heat
- B.
Evaporation
- 9.The temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid
- A.
Freezing point
- B.
Melting point
- 10.The process by which gas particles move slowly enough for their attraction to bring them together to form a droplet of liquid
- A.
Vaporization
- B.
Condensation
- 11.If the attractions between particles are strong enough to hold the particles in almost fixed positions but still slipping and sliding past each other, the matter involved is in a ____state
- A.
Solid
- B.
Liquid
- C.
Gas
- 12.Solids are called ____ solids if their particles are arranged in a repeated three-dimensional pattern.
- A.
Amorphous
- B.
Chrystalline
- 13.Because particles in a liquid move more freely than those in a solid, liquids have no definate
- A.
Shape
- B.
Volume
- 14.A gas partially fills its container
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 15.The physical state of a type of matter depends mostly upon how its atoms and molecules are arranged and how they move.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 16.The higher the temperature of matter the slower the particles are moving.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 17.Particles that make up matter are in a state of constant motion.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 18.When a warm object is brought near a cool object, the cool object will warm up.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 19.Vaporization is NOT a change from a liquid to a gas.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 20.If an object's density is less than that of the fluid it is in, it will float.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 21.The temperature remains constant when a liquid reaches its boiling point.
- A.
True
- B.
False
- 22.A student measures the mass of an 8 cm3 block of brown sugar to be 12.9 g. What is the density of the brown sugar?
- A.
16 g/cm cubes
- B.
.6 g/cm cubes
- C.
1.6 g/cm cubes
- D.
6 g/cm cubes
- 23.A chef fills a 50 mL container with 43.5 g of cooking oil. What is the density of the oil? (Round to the nearest 10th)
- A.
1.1 g/ml
- B.
.9 g/ml
- C.
8 g/ml
- D.
9 g/ml
- 24.A machine shop worker records the mass of an aluminum cube as 176 g. If one side of the cube measures 4 cm, what is the density of the aluminum?
- A.
2.8 g/cm cubed
- B.
14.7g/cm cubed
- C.
.4g/cm cubed
- D.
44g/cm cubed
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