Name: __________________________________ Date: ____________________ 8S
States of Matter Internet Scavenger Hunt
Directions: You must begin by logging onto the laptop you have been assigned from the computer cart. Once you
have logged on go the student drive and find folder “States of matter internet scavenger hunt 8th grade”. Use the links
provided to answer questions. Make sure you answer questions in complete sentences and have no spelling errors. If
there is extra time at the end of the class period you may look up pictures for your “Show what you know posters” on
states of matter and changes in state of matter next week.
SECTION ONE: Chem4Kids Matter
Use the following link on my homepage to answer all of the questions in section
one: http://www.chem4kids.com/files/matter_intro.html
Now: Click on > Overview in the right margin and read before
answering questions.
1. How many states of matter are there?
2. Atoms in a liquid are farther apart than the atoms in a gas. Is this
statement true or false? If the statement is false be sure to correct the
statement to make it true.
3. Which state of matter has the least energetic molecules? Explain.
4. When a substance goes from being a solid to a liquid is an example of what
kind of change a chemical or physical? Explain.
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States of Matter Internet Scavenger Hunt
5. Which of these choices will NOT change the state of matter? Explain.
a. Temperature
b. Crushing a Crystal
c. Pressure
d. Electricity
6. If you leave water in a glass and some molecules turn into a gas, this is
called what? Explain the process.
Now: Click on > States of Matter in the right margin and read
before answering questions.
1. Describe how adding energy changes
the state of matter from solid to liquid.
2. Of gases, liquids, and solids, what is the densest state of matter? Explain.
3. A substance that changes from a solid state to a liquid state gains energy.
Explain.
4. If the surrounding pressure of a system decreases, evaporation will
______________________. Explain.
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States of Matter Internet Scavenger Hunt
Now: Click on > Solids in the right margin and read before
answering questions.
1. What is the term used to describe the phase change as a liquid becomes a
solid?
2. Amorphous solids are _______.
a. Are more flexible at higher temperatures.
b. Include glasses.
c. Do not have specific melting points.
d. All of the Above
Now: Click on > Liquids in the right margin and read before
answering questions.
T/F 1. All materials move from solid to liquid to gas as the temperature
increases. _________________ Explain.
2. What term is used to describe the phase change of a solid to a liquid?
Describe the phase change.
3. Forces of attraction in liquids are __________________ than in solids. Explain.
T/F 4. It is just as easy to compress a liquid, as it is to compress a gas.
_____________ Explain.
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States of Matter Internet Scavenger Hunt
Now: Click on > Gases in the right margin and read before
answering questions.
1. As the temperature of a system increases, the pressure of the gases
________________. Explain.
2. What is the term used to describe the phase change of a liquid to a gas?
3. Which of these statements is true? Explain.
a. Gases have high density.
b. Gases can be compressed more than solids.
c. Gases have very specific shapes.
d. All of the Above
4. As the temperature of a gas decreases, its volume__________________.
Explain.
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States of Matter Internet Scavenger Hunt
SECTION TWO: States of Matter
Use the link below to answer all of the questions in section two.
http://www.chem.purdue.edu/gchelp/atoms/states.html
1. What can you observe from viewing the microscopic view of gas
molecules?
(Be descriptive)
2. What can you observe from viewing the microscopic view of liquid
molecules? (Be descriptive)
3. What can you observe from viewing the microscopic view of solid
molecules?
(Be descriptive)
4. In a short response describe two characteristics/behaviors of gas, liquid,
and solids.
(Be descriptive)
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States of Matter Internet Scavenger Hunt
Complete the table below with by comparing three characteristics of solids,
liquids, and gases:
Some Characteristics of Gases, Liquids and Solids and the Microscopic
Explanation for the Behavior
gas
liquid
solid
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States of Matter Internet Scavenger Hunt
SECTION THREE: States of Matter
Use the link below to answer all of the questions in section three.
http://www.idahoptv.org/dialogue4kids/season7/matter/facts.cfm
1. Atoms that do not have much energy stay in place and form what state of
matter? (Also view the animation for the state of matter you choose as the
answer and describe the animation you see.)
2. What state of matter can you feel when the wind blows? (Also view the
animation for the state of matter you choose as the answer and describe
the animation you see.)
3. What state of matter does not have a definite shape, and its atoms move
fast and spread out? (Also view the animation for the state of matter you
choose as the answer and describe the animation you see.)
Challenge: Find a labeled heating/cooling curve for water and label all of
the changes in states of matter.