Students decide whether four statements about particular nature of matter are true or false and then give a reason for their answer.
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Science capabilities
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Capability: Use evidence
This resource provides opportunities toto discuss using their developing science understandings and text information to make inferences about the particle theory of matter.
True
As temperature increases the particles speed up and move further apart (the water expands).
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b)
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True
Orange juice is a liquid, particles in a liquid are close together but can move around.
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c)
i)
ii)
False
The particles do vibrate more slowly but they do not get smaller – they just move closer together.
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d)
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False
The particles in gaseous nitrogen are identical to those in liquid nitrogen (N2) – they are just moving faster and are further apart, i.e., Change of state is not a chemical change.
