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Chapter 3
physical science
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 no definite shape or volume |
| What is Kinetic Energy? | the energy an object has due to its motion |
| What is pressure? | the result of a force distributed over an area |
| What is absolute zero? | a temperature of 0 kelvins |
| What is Charles's law? | the direct proportion of the volume of a gas to its temperature (in kelvins)if the pressure and the number of particles of the gas are constant |
| What is Boyle's law? | the inverse variation of the volume of a gas with its pressure if the temperature and the number of particles are constant |
| What is a phase change? | a reversible physical change that occurs when a substance changes from one state of matter to another |
| What is endothermic? | a description of a change in which a system absorbs energy from its surroundings |
| What is heat of fusion? | the energy a substance must absorb in order yo change from a solid to a liquid |
| 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 evaporation? | the process that changes a substance from a liquid to a gas at temperatures below the substance's boiling point |
| What is vapor pressure? | the pressure cause 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 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 to 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 |