What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, plasma
Solid, gas, plasma
Solid, liquid, gas
Which state is a material in if its particles are in a close, regular pattern?
Liquid
Solid
Gas
Which state is a material in if its particles are in a close, random pattern?
Which state is a material in if its particles are randomly arranged and far apart?
Why can't solids be compressed or squashed?
The particles can move around each other
The particles are far apart and have space to move into
The particles are close together and have no space to move into
Which of the following is a property of a liquid?
They have a fixed shape and cannot flow
They can't be squashed or compressed
They can't flow and completely fill their container
Why can gases be compressed?
They flow and completely fill their container
When a gas is heated, what happens to the kinetic energy of the particles?
It increases
It decreases
It stays the same
What happens to the force on the walls of a container of a gas that is being heated?
What happens to the pressure inside a container of a gas that is being heated?