Last meeting you learned that everything that exists can be classified

as either a type of matter or a form of energy. Non-matter includes light, heat,

and sounds. You cannot hold, taste, or smell these things. You also learned

that each state of matter has its own unique set of physical properties. Table

1 shows a summary of the physical properties of solids, liquids, and gases.

List five (5) examples at the bottom of each column.

Solids

Liquids

Gases

• Have a definite shape.

• Have no definite

shape.

• Have no definite shape

• Have a definite volume

• Have a definite

volume.

•Have no definite volume

• Cannot be compressed

• Cannot be

compressed

• Can be compressed.

• Do not flow.

• Flow and take the

shape of the

container

• Flow and spread in all

directions to fill the

container.

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