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States of Matter
dolphyn - pnhs - physical properties I.S. vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is evaporation? | The process that changes a substance from a liquid to a gas at temperatures below the substance's boiling point. |
| What is a solid? | The state of matter in which materials have a definite shape and a definite volume. |
| What is a liquid? | The state of matter in which a material has a definite volume but not a definite shape. |
| What is a gas? | The state of matter in which a material has neither a definite shape nor a definite volume. |
| What is kinetic energy? | The energy an object has due to its motion. |
| What is a phase change? | A reversible physical change that occurs when a substance changes from one state of matter to another. |
| What is an endothermic? | A description of a change in which a system absorbs energy from its surroundings. |
| What is heat of fusion? | A nuclear reaction in which the nuclei of two atoms combine to form a larger nucleus. |
| What is exothermic? | A description of a change in which a system releases energy to its surroundings. |
| What is vaporization? | The phase change in which a substance changes from a liquid into a gas. |
| What is heat of vaporization? | The energy a substance must absorb in order to change from a liquid to a gas. |
| What is vapor pressure? | The pressure caused by the collisions of particles in a vapor with the walls of a container. |
| What is condensation? | The phase change in which a substance changes from a gas or a vapor to a liquid. |
| What is sublimation? | The phase change in which a substance changes from a solid to a gas or vapor without changing into a liquid first. |
| What is deposition? | The phase change in which a gas or vapor changes directly into a solid without first changing into a liquid; the placement of sediment that has been transported from another location. |