Question

What are the properties of matter? With the help of an activity, Show that matter occupies space.

Answer 1

Matter: Matter is anything that occupies some space and possesses some mass. It is made up of tiny particles. It is of three types gas, liquid, and solid.

The matter has the following characteristics:

• Matter is made up of particles
• Matter has inter-particle space
• The particles constituting a matter are very small.
• Particles in the matter are always in a state of motion.
• The motion of the particles increases with an increase in temperature.

An activity to show that matter occupies space:

1. Take a glass full of water of approximately$100\mathrm{ml}$.
2. Add sugar or salt to it and make it dissolve by stirring.
3. Due to the presence of some space inside the particles of water, particles of sugar dissolved.
4. But after adding more sugar that space will be filled up and no more sugar can dissolve in it.

From this experiment, we say that matter occupies space that's why sugar has some space that occupied the space inside water particles.