Properties of materials Flashcards

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What are properties of materials?

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How materials look and feel

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Give examples of properties of materials

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Hard, soft, flexible, rough, smooth, breakable, bendy, light, heavy, tough, strong, brittle, opaque, transparent, translucent, waterproof, absorbent, shiny, dull, squashy, stretchy.

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What are the properties of metal?

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Hard, strong, heavy.

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What are the properties of wool?

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Light, soft, squashy

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What are the properties of stone?

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Hard, opaque, rough

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What are the properties of wood?

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Rough, heavy, hard, breakable

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What are the properties of glass?

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Transparent, breakable, brittle, shiny

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What are the properties of plastic?

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Waterproof, smooth, light

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What are the properties of rubber?

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Stretchy, bendy, flexible.

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What is a reversible change?

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When some things change shape, we can easily change them back to the way they were like clay, plasticine, water, rubber

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What is irreversible change?

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When some things change shape, we cannot change them back to the way they were like wood, paper

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How can we change the shape of some materials?

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By bending, stretching, twisting, heating them up.

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What happens to dough when you warm it?

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The dough cooks.

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What happens to chocolate when you warm it?

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It melts.

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What happens to clay when you warm it?

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It hardens.

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What happens to wax when you warm it?

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It melts.

17
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What happens to ice when you warm it?

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It melts.

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What happens when white sugar is put in water?

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The white sugar dissolves after stirring the water. The water remains clear.

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What happens when brown sugar is put in water?

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The brown sugar dissolves after stirring the water. The water remains clear but brown coloured.

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What happens when flour is put in water?

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It scatters the water when stirred. The water becomes cloudy with a layer of powder on the bottom.

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What happens when salt is put in water?

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It dissolves after stirring. The water remains clear.

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What happens when rice is put in water?

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The rice remains at the bottom of the cup. The water remains clear.