What You Need To
Know About Density
1. What is mass and how is it
measured?
2. What is volume and how is it
measured?
3. What are the units of mass and
volume?
4. What is the difference between
mass and weight?
5. Be able to use the density
formula to calculate density given
mass and volume
6. Be able to calculate the volume
of a rectangular prism
7. Know the relative densities of
the three physical states of water
8. Understand what happens to the
distance between water
molecules when they change
physical state
9. Know why molecules change
their distance from each other
depending on the temperature
10. Be able to interpret a density
graph
11. Know some ways to change the
density of water
12. Be able to explain why lower
density substances rise, and visa
versa
13. Know what happens to density
when two liquids or gases of
different densities are mixed
together
14. Know that density is a
characteristic of a substance that
is independent of amount
15. Understand why different trials
of the same experiment yield
slightly different results