Chemistry · Science General

States of Matter

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States of matter questions explore physical changes, evaporation, phase transitions, and the properties of liquids and gases. Topics cover density, cryosurgery, heavy water, and electrolytes. This foundational chemistry topic frequently appears in general science sections of SSC and railway exams.

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States of Matter Questions

Multiple choice
  1. Evaporation

  2. Condensation

  3. Crystallization

  4. Sublimation

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Condensation is the process where water vapour (gas) cools down and changes state into liquid water - this is what you see as water droplets on cold surfaces or clouds forming. Evaporation is the reverse (liquid to gas), crystallization is formation of solid crystals from solution, and sublimation is solid directly becoming gas without passing through liquid state.

Multiple choice
  1. Tearing of paper : Chemical change

  2. Melting of ice : Chemical change

  3. Curdling of milk : Physico-chemical change

  4. Rusting of iron : Physical change

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Curdling is the breaking of an emulsion or colloid into large parts of different composition through the physico-chemical processes of flocculation, creaming and coalescence.

Multiple choice
  1. All water changes into ice.

  2. Color of the water turns milky

  3. Drops of water collect on the outer surface of the glass

  4. Water evaporates immediately

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

When a cold glass sits in warm air, water vapor in the air contacts the cold surface and condenses into liquid droplets on the outside. This is condensation - the same process that causes dew on grass. The water doesn't freeze, change color, or evaporate; droplets form on the exterior due to temperature difference.

Multiple choice
  1. Smooth

  2. Insulate body heat

  3. Cool

  4. Highly adsorbent

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Rayon is smooth, cool, and highly absorbent, making it comfortable to wear. However, unlike natural fibres such as wool or cotton, rayon does not insulate body heat well - it can feel cold to the touch. This lack of thermal insulation is the property that rayon does not possess compared to many other fibres.

Multiple choice
  1. Paper cup burns up without any change in the temperature of water.

  2. Paper cup burns up with water undergoing the boiling process.

  3. There is no effect on both paper cup and water.

  4. Water continues to boil without paper cup getting burnt up.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

When water is heated in a paper cup over a flame, the water absorbs the heat through conduction and convection. The water's boiling point (100°C) is well below the paper's ignition temperature (233°C or higher). As long as water remains in the cup, the paper cannot reach its ignition temperature, preventing it from burning.

Multiple choice
  1. Condensation

  2. Evaporation

  3. Freezing

  4. Respiration

  5. Melting

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Evaporation is the process by which water is converted from its liquid form to its vapour form and thus transferred from land and water masses to the atmosphere. In nature, the sun heats the water in ponds, lakes, rivers or sea, and changes into vapour and rises in air. Here water is also disappeared because of evaporation.

Multiple choice
  1. Evaporation

  2. Transpiration

  3. Condensation

  4. Sublimation

  5. Freezing

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Condensation is the change of the physical state of matter from gaseous phase into liquid phase. The temperature of the ice cold water is close to zero. The air around the container consists of water vapour, which accounts to humidity. When the water vapour comes in contact with the outer surface of glass containing ice cold water, there is a change in physical state of water vapour to water in liquid phase due to lower temperature and condensation. Hence,  it accounts for the water droplets on the outer surface of a tumbler or a glass containing ice cold water.

Multiple choice
  1. Water will evaporate.

  2. Water will remain unchanged.

  3. Water will freeze to ice.

  4. Water will condense.

  5. Water will get polluted.

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

At - 8 degree Celsius temperature, the water in Dal lake goes below the freezing point as the freezing point is 0 degree Celsius. So, the water in Dal lake will freeze and the lake will become so hard so that any body can walk and play on that.

Multiple choice
  1. Solid

  2. Liquid

  3. Gases

  4. Plasma

  5. Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC)

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Matter in the gaseous state has both variable volume and shape adapting both to fit its container. Its particles are neither close together nor fixed in place. For example, oxygen, carbon dioxide, steam, etc.