Matter: Properties

Recall that physical properties are characteristics that can be seen without producing new substances. Chemical properties describe
how something interacts or reacts with something else to produce new substances. Extensive properties depend upon the amount
of matter in the sample; intensive properties do not.

Directions, Part 1: Classify each property as physical or chemical. Then classify each of the properties listed below as extensive or
intensive. Write the word out to earn full credit.

Property Is it a General or Specific Property? Is it Extensive or Intensive Property?

1. Mass General Extensive

2. Boiling Point Specific Intensive

3. Ductility
Specific Intensive
(Stretched into a wire)
4. volume General Extensive

5. Reactivity with acid Specific Intensive

6. odor Specific Intensive

7. weight General Extensive

8. Malleability
(Hammered into Specific Intensive
sheets)
9. Corrode or Tarnish
Specific Intensive
(reacting with the air)

Directions, Part 2: Some measurements or descriptions of properties are listed below. Write which property is being described in
each case. Select properties that are listed in the table from Part 1.

A. 15 dm3 A. volume
B. Can easily be hammered into sheets B. malleability
C. 2.8 g/cm3 C. density
D. Burns when heated in the presence of O2 D. flammability
E. Shiny metal forms a chalky white layer on its surface E. luster
F. 1,000 kg F. volume
G. Turns into a liquid from a solid G. freezing point
H. Can easily be drawn into a wire H. ductility