Physical Changes

This set of cards is intended to help ESOL students to learn and practice the vocabulary for the topic "Physical Changes" in Science.

16 cards   |   Total Attempts: 196
  

Cards In This Set

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Question 1
Change
When something becomes different.
Question 2
State
The structure, the form, or the constitution of something.
Question 3
Solid
A substance that stays the same shape whether it is in a container or not.
Question 4
Liquid
A substance which is not solid but which flows, for example water.
Question 5
Gas
A substance like air that is neither liquid nor solid, for example oxygen or hydrogen.
Question 6
Melting
The action of changing from a solid to a liquid as the temperature is raised.
Question 7
Freezing
The process in which something changes from liquid to solid as the temperature becomeslower.
Question 8
Evaporation
When a liquid changes to a vapor, caused by an increase in temperature and/or a decrease in pressure.
Question 9
Boiling
The action of heating a liquid until it becomes a vapor.
Question 10
Condensation
The action of turning a vapor into a liquid by contact with a cool surface.
Question 11
Sublimation
The process or instance that changes or causes to change directly from a solid to a vapor or gas without first melting.
Question 12
Example of physical change from solid to liquid: melting.
Ice melts.
Question 13
Example of physical change from liquid to solid: freezing.
Ice forms in the freezer.
Question 14
Example of physical change from liquid to gas: evaporation - boiling.
Clothes dry.
Question 15
Example of physical change from gas to liquid: condensation.
Drops of the water form on a glass holding a cold drink.