Properties

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Properties

• Tina Barrett, TRT
• Madison County Schools

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Properties
Is it heavy or light? Is it think? Is it thin? Is
it hot, warm, or cold? Can it wiggle and
bend? Is it liquid or gas? Is it silky or
coarse? Is it as small as an ant Or as big as a
horse?

• Every object on Earth
• Can be simply described
• By color or weight
• By shape or by size.
• These characteristics
• We call properties,
• And they help us explain
• Everything that we see.
• We can ask a few questions
• To help us define
• The Traits that belong
• To each object we find.

Is it round? Is it square? Is it red, blue, or
green? Is it as hard as a rock Or as soft as a
dream? When you are answering Questions like
these, You are describing Properties!
Poem from Read and Understand Science By Evan-Moor
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Properties are _______.

• Measured
• Observed
• Compared
• All of the above

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A ruler is used to measure ______.

• Weight
• Temperature
• Length
• All of the above.

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Movement that occurs from warmer areas to cooler
areas is?

• Conduction
• Convection
• Current
• Insulators

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__________ are materials that transfer heat
easily.

• Convection
• Conductors
• Insulators
• Current

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A/An ____ is a material that does not transfer
heat easily.

• Conductor
• Convection
• Current
• Insulators

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Melting ice is a _______change.

• Chemical
• Physical

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A bike rusting is a _____ change.

• Chemical
• Physical

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Sugar dissolving is a _____ change.

• Chemical
• Physical