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.
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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.
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