Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Use Your Senses Matter Anything that takes up space and has mass is matter. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Use Your Senses Matter A characteristic of matter that you can observe or measure directly is a physical property. You can use your senses to make physical observations like, hearing, tasting, smelling, touching, and seeing. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Use Your Senses Matter Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? The amount of matter in an object is its mass. You can use a pan balance to measure mass. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Less massive objects are measured in grams (g). More massive objects are measured in kilograms (kg). Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Describe That! Matter can be described in many ways. Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Describe That! Matter can be described in many ways. It can be described by hardness, or how easily something can bend or dent. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Describe That! Matter also can be described by size, taste, and color, or how light bounces off an object. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Describe That! Matter can be described by texture, or what something Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Describe That! Matter can be described by texture, or what something feels like. Matter also can be described by odor and shape, or by an object’s form. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Use Your Senses Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Pump Up the Volume! Volume is how much space an object takes up. Volume is measured in milliliters (mL). The beaker can be used to measure the volume of liquids. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Pump Up the Volume! Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? The dog in this tub takes up space. To make room for him, water was pushed out of the tub “Displacement” Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Don’t Be So Dense! Density is a physical property of matter. It is the amount of matter present in a certain volume of a substance. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Don’t Be So Dense! Density indicates how close together the particles in an object are. The density of a substance does not depend on how much matter is present. A small piece of eraser has the same density as a whole eraser. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Don’t Be So Dense! Objects less dense than water float. Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Don’t Be So Dense! Objects less dense than water float. Objects more dense than water sink. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Don’t Be So Dense! Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Matter often is sorted and classified. Matter is sorted by shape, Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Matter often is sorted and classified. Matter is sorted by shape, mass, texture, color, odor, and hardness. Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Unit 7 Lesson 1 What Are Physical Properties of Matter? Copyright © Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company