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Solid, liquid and gas are not the only physical properties of matter. Physical properties include any observations that you can make about a substance using your five senses. Consider salt, for example. Pretend you are observing a spoonful of salt. What do you notice? Salt is solid, hard, white, and made of small grains. If you look very closely, you will notice that salt grains are small square boxes. These are all physical properties of salt. |
YOU'RE THE SCIENTIST!
Look around you. Write down a
list of ten substances that you see. Then write down three
physical properties for each substance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Revised March 1, 2002 by Kathleen Ochsenbein