This document discusses the properties and changes of matter. It defines matter as anything that takes up space and is made of tiny particles called atoms. Matter exists in three states - solids, liquids, and gases. Solids have a fixed shape and volume, liquids take the shape of their container but have a fixed volume, and gases have no fixed shape or volume. Matter undergoes physical changes, which alter its properties but not its chemical makeup, and chemical changes, which create new substances through atomic rearrangement. Physical and chemical changes are illustrated with everyday examples.