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Cards In This Set
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 Change |
When something becomes different.
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 State |
The structure, the form, or the constitution of something.
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 Solid |
A substance that stays the same shape whether it is in a container or not.
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 Liquid |
A substance which is not solid but which flows, for example water.
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 Gas |
A substance like air that is neither liquid nor solid, for example oxygen or hydrogen.
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 Melting |
The action of changing from a solid to a liquid as the temperature is raised.
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 Freezing |
The process in which something changes from liquid to solid as the temperature becomeslower.
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 Evaporation |
When a liquid changes to a vapor, caused by an increase in temperature and/or a decrease in pressure.
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 Boiling |
The action of heating a liquid until it becomes a vapor.
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 Condensation |
The action of turning a vapor into a liquid by contact with a cool surface.
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 Sublimation |
The process or instance that changes or causes to change directly from a solid to a vapor or gas without first melting.
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 Example of physical change from solid to liquid: melting. |
Ice melts.
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 Example of physical change from liquid to solid: freezing. |
Ice forms in the freezer.
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 Example of physical change from liquid to gas: evaporation - boiling. |
Clothes dry.
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 Example of physical change from gas to liquid: condensation. |
Drops of the water form on a glass holding a cold drink.
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