Properties of Solid, Liquid, and Gas Flashcards
What type of matter can be highly compressed and expanded until filled up the entire container.
Gas
What type of matter that assumes the shape of the portion of
container it occupies and does not expand to fill its container.
Liquid
What type of matter that retains its shape and volume, does not expand to fill its container and is virtually incompressible.
Solid
Describe the solid structure
The molecules are compressed
Describe the Gas structure
The molecules are moving in a random motion
Describe the liquid structure
The molecules are free to move
What is the meaning of the Greek word kinetic
To move
Gases have lower _______.
Density
What are gases and liquids considered of?
Fluids
What do you call a highly ordered arrangement of bonds between atoms?
Structure