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Question Set: Properties of Matter
NGSS Science and Engineering Practices
NGSS Crosscutting Concepts
NGSS Disciplinary Core Ideas
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- Complete the Matter Category column in Table 1.3. Use the terms element, compound, and mixture.
- Describe in your own words what the general properties are of solids, liquids, and gases.
- What do solids, liquids, and gases have in common? How are they different?
- Categorize each of the following as a physical or chemical change. Explain your reasoning.
- Squeezing an orange to get juice
- Exploding fireworks
- Milk turning sour
- Creating a table from a fallen tree
- Lighting propane in a gas grill
- A glass bottle turning into beach glass
- Freezing chocolate covered bananas
- Burning toast
- Bleaching your hair blonde
- Stirring lemonade powder into water
- Melting butter
- Frying an egg
- Shredding paper
- Give three examples of chemical changes that also change the physical properties of a substance.
- What could you do to water that would change only its physical properties? Are there any ways you can think of to chemically change water?
- Baking soda is a chemical compound with the formula NaHCO3.
- What are the properties of the elements that make up this compound (Na, H, C, and O)?
- How do the properties of these elements differ from the properties of baking soda?
