Liquids can be found everywhere, too! The ocean water is a liquid. If you open your refrigerator, you might find milk or juice. These are both liquids. Ice cream is a solid, but when you mix it together with milk and put it in a blender, you get a milkshake--a liquid! Rain is also a liquid--it is water falling from the sky!
Liquids are an in-between state of matter. They can be found between the solid and gas states.
Liquids will fill up the container they are put it. Unlike a solid, whose shape is defined on its own without a container, when you put a liquid (such as water) in a cup or bowl, it takes the shape of the cup or bowl you put it in!
Liquids also flow at a given temperature. If you watch a river of water, the water flows. When you pour a cup of juice out, the juice will flow out. This means that when you move liquids, they change shape all the time!
Here are some examples of liquids:
Liquids are an in-between state of matter. They can be found between the solid and gas states.
Liquids will fill up the container they are put it. Unlike a solid, whose shape is defined on its own without a container, when you put a liquid (such as water) in a cup or bowl, it takes the shape of the cup or bowl you put it in!
Liquids also flow at a given temperature. If you watch a river of water, the water flows. When you pour a cup of juice out, the juice will flow out. This means that when you move liquids, they change shape all the time!
Here are some examples of liquids:
This is what a liquid looks like when you zoom in really close to see what its made of! The molecules that make up a liquid are a little farther apart than a solid and move around a lot more than a solid's molecules do. Do you see how there is space in between them and they seem to be moving?
TO DO:
After you have read all the material on this page, find me in the classroom. I will hand you four different containers that are different shapes and sizes. I will fill one of the containers with water. Your task is to pour all of the liquid from that one container into each one of the four other containers. Answer these questions in your Science Journals:
How do the shapes change? Why do some containers seem to have more liquid than others?
REMEMBER: Liquids always take the shapes of their containers!
After you have read all the material on this page, find me in the classroom. I will hand you four different containers that are different shapes and sizes. I will fill one of the containers with water. Your task is to pour all of the liquid from that one container into each one of the four other containers. Answer these questions in your Science Journals:
How do the shapes change? Why do some containers seem to have more liquid than others?
REMEMBER: Liquids always take the shapes of their containers!
After you have finished your second task,
click me and I'll take you to the third task!