Grade 2 Solids & Liquids worksheet
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How to explain it
- A solid keeps its shape, like a spoon or an ice cube.
- A liquid flows and takes the shape of its container, like juice.
- Warming melts solids into liquids. Cooling freezes liquids into solids.
Example: What happens to water in the freezer? The freezer is very cold. Cold turns liquid water into a solid. Answer: it freezes into ice
Question 1
Where would you find water as a gas?
- 🧊an ice cube
- 🍲steam rising from hot soup
- 🏞️a river
🍲 steam rising from hot soup
Hint: Hot water makes steam, which is water as a gas.
Question 2
Which one is a gas?
- 🧃orange juice
- ✏️a pencil
- 🌬️the air we breathe
🌬️ the air we breathe
Hint: Gases spread out to fill any space. Air is a gas!
Question 3
Is it a solid or a liquid? Tap an item, then tap its basket.
Sort into: 🧱 solid · 💧 liquid
- 📕book
- 🧃juice
- 🪨rock
- 🥄spoon
- 🍯honey
- 💧water
🧱 solid: book, rock, spoon · 💧 liquid: juice, honey, water
Hint: A solid keeps its shape. A liquid flows and takes the shape of its container.
Question 4
What do we call it when a solid turns into a liquid because it gets warm?
- freezing
- melting
- growing
melting
Hint: Melting needs heat. Ice melts into water.
Question 5
Which can be undone: melting an ice cube or baking a cake?
- 🎂baking a cake
- 🪵burning a log
- 🧊melting an ice cube
🧊 melting an ice cube
Hint: You can freeze melted water to make ice again, but you can't un-bake a cake.
Question 6
Can melted chocolate become solid again?
🍫- 🍫Yes, if it cools down
- 🚫No, never
🍫 Yes, if it cools down
Hint: When melted chocolate cools, it becomes solid again. That change can be undone.
Question 7
Which words describe a solid?
- 💨floats away in the air
- 🧱hard and keeps its shape
- 💧flows and pours
🧱 hard and keeps its shape
Hint: Solids don't change shape unless you do something to them.
Question 8
Which one is a liquid?
- 🥄a spoon
- 🧱a brick
- 🥛milk
🥛 milk
Hint: A liquid flows and takes the shape of its container.
Question 9
What happens to a puddle of water on a very cold day?
- 🧊It can freeze into ice
- 🧃It becomes juice
- 🏖️It turns into sand
🧊 It can freeze into ice
Hint: Water freezes when it gets cold enough.
Question 10
Which one is a solid?
- ♨️steam
- 🪵a wooden block
- 🧃orange juice
🪵 a wooden block
Hint: A solid keeps its own shape.
Answer key
- 1. 🍲 steam rising from hot soup
- 2. 🌬️ the air we breathe
- 3. 🧱 solid: book, rock, spoon · 💧 liquid: juice, honey, water
- 4. melting
- 5. 🧊 melting an ice cube
- 6. 🍫 Yes, if it cools down
- 7. 🧱 hard and keeps its shape
- 8. 🥛 milk
- 9. 🧊 It can freeze into ice
- 10. 🪵 a wooden block
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