Understanding Physical Change
A Grade 3 science worksheet to help students understand and identify physical changes in matter.
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Understanding Physical Change
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Remember, a physical change means the matter changes its form, but it's still the same kind of matter!
1. Which of the following is an example of a physical change?
Burning wood
Rusting of iron
Melting ice
Baking a cake
2. When you tear a piece of paper, what kind of change occurs?
Chemical change
Physical change
No change
Permanent change
1. When water freezes into ice, it is still water.
True
False
2. Cutting an apple in half is a chemical change.
True
False
1. A physical change is when matter changes its , but not what it is made of.
2. When you break a glass, it is still glass, just in smaller .
1. Describe one example of a physical change you might see in your kitchen.