Question Bank: Materials Around Us

What is a material?

Which of the following materials is classified as a natural material?

Which property would you use to group objects like apples and oranges?

If you touch a metal object, it usually feels?

What material would be unsuitable for making a cooking pot?

Which of the following can be a property to group materials?

What is terracotta?

Which of these is a property of glass?

Why do we group materials?

Which materials would likely feel soft to the touch?

Which material is most durable for furniture?

What can affect the color of an object?

Which of the following objects is likely the heaviest?

In history, which material was primarily used for creating pottery?

Which of the following materials is typically lustrous?

What property is NOT typically used to group materials?

Which of the following materials is likely to appear dull after some time?

Which criterion can be used to group materials as hard or soft?

Which group would you classify pinewood, plastic, and rubber?

What is a common property of metals?

Which of these is NOT a way to group materials?

In which category would you place a polished stone?

Which of the following represents a property of wood?

Which material is likely to be grouped with fibrous substances?

What makes metals different from non-metals?

How can we classify a material that is flexible and stretches easily?

Which of the following statements is true about grouping materials?

Why are some materials coated with plastics or wax?

Which property would best describe a material that cannot conduct electricity?

Which property describes the shininess of a material?

What is the typical appearance of metals?

Which of the following materials is considered non-lustrous?

Which units are used to measure mass?

Which statement is true about lustrous materials?

What property do all materials possess?

If a material does not shine, it is classified as?

Why might a metal lose its lustre over time?

Which of the following properties is NOT typically shared by all materials?

What happens to metals when they are polished?

What distinguishes materials with a shiny surface from those that are not shiny?

Which of the following properties applies to metals?

Aluminium is used for the foil because it is:

What is commonly true about the texture of rubber?

How would you classify materials that can be shiny due to polishing but are not metals?

Why do some metals lose their lustre after time?

What is the definition of matter?

What unit is commonly used to measure mass?

What happens to the volume of matter when it is heated?

Which of the following is NOT a property of matter?

How do you express the volume of a liquid?

What determines the amount of matter in an object?

If a wooden block and a metal block have the same volume, which of them will have more mass?

What is the relation between mass and volume for any substance?

Which of the following states of matter has a definite shape?

What happens to the mass of an object when it is divided into smaller pieces?

Which property must all forms of matter possess?

What changes occur when a solid turns into a liquid?

Which of the following describes the term 'density'?

When measuring the mass of an object, which instrument is commonly used?

What property describes the amount of space occupied by matter?

What is NOT a method for observing properties of matter?

What can cause an increase in the density of a substance?

Why do gases have no definite shape?

If you have equal volumes of oil and water, which will weigh more?