What Is Matter.

1. Matter is anything that has .. and occupies .

2. We have seen earlier that everything around us has mass and occupies space.
3. Therefore, we can say that everything around us is matter. There are included
.. and on the Earth.
4. Living things, for example, human beings, birds and insects are matter.
5. Non-living things, for example, air, water, soil, rocks and books are also matter.
6. However, some things are not matter. For example, light, sound and heat are not
matter because they do not have occupy space.
3.2 THE THREE STATE OF MATTER
What Is Matter Made Up Of ?
1. Matter is made up of very small .
2. These particles are so small that they cannot be seen even with a
..
3. These particles are the . of matter.
4. There are spaces between the particles because they are .
5. The particles of matter can move.
Example : When you break a piece of chalk, you will find that is actually made up of fine
powder. You can keep breaking up the chalk into smaller and smaller parts. You will get
very small and discrete particles and cannot be seen even using microscope.

EXPERIMENTS : TO SHOW THAT MATTER IS MADE UP OF TINY AND DISCRETE

PARTICLES

Blue
in
colou
r

1 .A copper sulphate crystal is dropped to the clear

water. The clear water soon become
in colour.
The .. and mix in
between the spaces of water ..

Before
After

Few days later the balloon

become smaller because air is
made up of
that allowed it to .
through the tiny . of
the balloons wall

EXPERIMENT 1 ARRAGEMENT OF PARTICLES IN SOLID

There are .. between the solid

particles (gel) . These allow the potassium
permanganate to the gel
particles in gel tube.

EXPERIMENT 2
ARRAGEMENT OF
PARTICLES IN LIQUID
The total volume of water
and alcohol is
..
This is because the particles
of water and alcohol
. of
each other.

EXPERIMENT 3 ARRAGEMENT OF
PARTICLES IN GAS
The gas particles can
.
In the jar because there are
..
between them
The smoke particles fill in the empty
spaces between air particles just in
..