Properties of Water Quiz

Water has a shape. True or False?
1. True.
2. False.
3. It depends. It can be true or false!
Which container has more water?
1. The one on the left
2. The one on the right
3. Neither one. They have the same volume.
What makes liquid water evaporate?
1. Leaving it out somewhere, like on a table.
2. The water absorbs heat and changes to a gas (water vapor).
3. Boiling the water makes it evaporate.
When does water have a shape?
1. When it is frozen.
2. When it is a gas.
3. When it is being poured.
Water can be a solid, a liquid, or a gas. What is the word for water when it is in the gas state?
1. gas water
2. ice
3. water vapor
What's the word for solid water?
1. ice
2. water vapor
3. liquid
What do you need to add to liquid water to change it into a gas?
1. salt
2. heat
3. ice
What do you have to add to ice to change it into liquid water?
1. More ice
2. cold
3. heat
What are these words describing? (evaporation, condensation, precipitation, runoff, accumulation)
1. the water cycle
2. the states of matter
3. rain
What's the science word for rain, snow, and hail?
1. condensation
2. precipitation
3. evaporation
What part of the water cycle makes clouds form?
1. precipitation
2. evaporation
3. condensation
A ball of clay sinks to the bottom of a bucket of water. What can you do to make the clay float instead of sinking?
1. Change the clay's mass
2. Change the clay's state of matter
3. Change the clay's shape
A quartz rock, a wooden toothpick, a nail, and a cork are placed in a container of water. What will you observe happening?
1. The objects will sink.
2. The rock and nail will float. The cork and toothpick will sink.
3. The rock and nail will sink. The cork and toothpick will float.
What is the science word for a liquid changing into a gas?
1. evaporation
2. precipitation
3. condensation
What's the science word for a gas changing back into a liquid?
1. evaporation
2. condensation
3. precipitation
What is groundwater?
1. Water that runs off the ground into a lake or stream.
2. Water that falls down from the sky.
3. Water that soaks into the ground and stays there after it rains.
Which is a true statement about water?
1. Ice and liquid water have the same volume (take up the same amount of space).
2. Ice has greater volume (takes up more space) than liquid water.
3. Liquid water has greater volume (takes up more space) than ice.
Which statement about ice is true?
1. Ice sinks.
2. Ice floats.
3. Ice does not sink or float.
What's the opposite of evaporation?
1. precipitation
2. transpiration
3. condensation
What's the opposite of condensation?
1. evaporation
2. condensation
3. accumulation
When the temperature is dropping, at what temperature Celsius will water freeze?
1. 32 degrees
2. 10 degrees
3. 0 degrees
When the temperature is rising, at what temperature Celsius will ice melt?
1. 43 degrees
2. 0 degrees
3. 100 degrees
If the temperature is rising, liquid water will boil and evaporate (turn into a gas) at what temperature?
1. 100 degrees Celsius
2. 212 degrees Celsius
3. 0 degrees Celsius
If the temperature is falling, at what temperature will water vapor condense and become a liquid?
1. 212 degrees Celsius
2. 100 degrees Celsius
3. 0 degrees Celsius