Sample AMS Questions- Exam 1617-PS11(Chapter1 Section1-)

The following are responses from the readings, labs, questions

reviewed in class and tutoring.
1. What is matter?
2. What is a physical property?
3. What is one property of magnetic objects?

4. What physical property depends on the amount of matter?

5. What is an intrinsic physical property?

6. What is a boiling point?

7. What is solubility?

8. What is a chemical property?

9. Why can chemical properties be used to identify matter?

10.How do the melting and boiling points of an unknown substance help

determine its identity?

Sample AMS Questions- Exam 1617-PS11 (Chapter1 Section1-)

KEY
1. What is matter?
Matter is anything that mass can take up space
2. What is a physical property?
Physical properties are properties that you can observe by
looking at or measuring matter.
3. What is one property of magnetic objects?
They are attracted to magnets
4. What physical property depends on the amount of matter?
Size
5. What is an intrinsic physical property?
Does not depend on the amount of the substance
6. What is a boiling point?
Changes from liquid to gas
7. What is solubility?
The amount of a substance that will dissolve in a given amount
of another substance
8. What is a chemical property?
Describes how a substance interacts with other matter
9. Why can chemical substance properties be used to identify matter?
They depend only on the identity of a substance
10. How do the melting and boiling points of an unknown substance help

determine its
identity?

Can be used to determine identity of an unknown substance

(unlike mass, shape, color, size)