Introduction

Using the Web allows you to discover more than you may have ever known possible. The sites provided will provide some informative information on the different states of matter and will enable you to find the answers to the questions below.

Questions

1. What is the process called when water turns into gas?
   
   
2. Melting, freezing, condensation, and evaporation are examples of what?
   When a substance changes phases, what properties change, the physical or the chemical?
   
   
3. In what state or phase (solid, liquid or gas)do molecules move the fastest?
   What is the term for when a solid changes to a liquid?
   What is the term for when a liquid changes to a solid?
   What is the term for when a liquid changes to a gas?
   What is the term for when a gas changes to a liquid?
   
   
4. What are the three states of matter?
   Which state of matter has a definate shape and volume?
   Which state has a definate volume, but takes on the shape of the container?
   Which state takes on the volume of the container?
   
   
   
5. Of the three states of matter, which is the most dense?
   When liquid is raised to its boiling point, what happens?
   What are the three states of matter?
   What determines whether something is in one state or another?
   
   
6. Crystal and amorphous are two kinds of which state of matter?
   
   
   

The Internet Resources

• Phases - Gas, liquid and solid
• states of water
• states of matter
• water is everywhere -even in the air
• The different states of matter
• Solids liquids gases

The Big Question

What are the differences between the 3 states of matter?