Chemical and Chemical and Physical PropertiesPhysical Properties

Do You Know The Difference?

Describe This OrangeDescribe This Orange

In your science notebook, describe this orange in terms of color, odor, texture, size, shape, and state.

You Probably Listed You Probably Listed PHYSICAL PropertiesPHYSICAL Properties

A physical property is a property of matter that can be observed or measured without changing the identity of the matter.

If you peel a banana or an orange, it is still a banana or an orange with all of it’s original parts. If you deflate a football, it

is still a football.

Scientific Physical PropertiesScientific Physical Properties

Chemical PropertiesChemical PropertiesA property of matter that describes a

substance based on its ability to change into a new substance with different properties.

You can only tell if an object has a certain chemical property by changing that object.

For example: Once we find out paper is flammable by burning it, we’ve changed it. We Can’t ever get our original piece of

paper back.

Examples of Physical and Examples of Physical and Chemical ChangeChemical Change

Substance Physical Property

Chemical Property

Wood Grainy texture Flammable

Baking soda White powder Reacts with vinegar to produce bubbles

Iron Malleable Reacts with oxygen

Helium Lighter than air Nonflammable

Do You Get It??Do You Get It??

In your science notebook make a T-Chart that looks like this:

Physical Properties Chemical Properties

Sort the list of properties on your T-chart

Chemical or Physical???Chemical or Physical???

Color Flammability Density Texture Reacts with Oxygen Boiling Point Reacts with vinegar

Did You Get It??Did You Get It??

Physical Properties Chemical Properties

-Color

-Density

-Texture

-Boiling Point

-Flammability

-Reacts with Oxygen

-Reacts with vinegar