
4th Grade Matter PreAssessment
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- Q1A container with ice in it is left in a warm room. After three hours, what has most likely happened to the ice? The ice has–increased in size.gotten colder.turned to a gas.melted into liquid.30s
- Q2A student heats chocolate chips. What properties would you expect to see change?Shape and tasteState of matter and shapeSize and massTaste and state of matter30s
- Q3When water is frozen, its state of matter changes from a -gas to a liquidliquid to a gassolid to a liquidliquid to a solid30s
- Q4A glass of ice water forms drops of water on the outside. This happens when water vapor in the air condenses because -the glass is sitting stillgravity pulls air downthe ice meltsthe air loses heat30s
- Q5Students want to investigate how the amount of water affects the way heat can change liquid water into a gas. Besides a thermometer, what other items will their investigation require?Balance, graduated cylinder, gogglesStop watch, goggles, containers of waterHot plate, stop watch, containers of waterContainers of water, hot plate, goggles30s
- Q6A student stirred 10 grams of salt into 50 mL of water and 10 grams of sand into 50 mL of water and let both mixtures sit for ten minutes. What important difference is observed between these two mixtures?Salt dissolves in the water but sand does not.The salt, sand, and water do not mix together.Mixture 2 can be separated, but Mixture 1 cannot.Mixture 1 is a solid and a liquid, but Mixture 2 is not.30s
- Q7A magnet would be most useful in separating which of the following mixtures?Salt and waterSugar and iced teaIron filings and sandRocks and soil30s
- Q8A student tests matter by placing it in water to see if it floats. What property of matter is being tested?DensityShapeWeightMass30s
- Q9A student touches a metal pan on a hot stove and burns his hand. The pan must be a good -magnetinsulatorconductorsolid30s