If rain can be a liquid, why can't fart be a gas? Aside from the teacher's inability to comprehend what gas is there are two other questions I take issue with:
#5 Liquids do have their own shape - a drop of water has a shape. What the statement should be is, "Liquids hold their own shape." Having a shape and holding a shape are very different things.
#7 Not everything is made of matter. Is he too young to learn this? I doubt it. He doesn't even comprehend what matter truly is. He's just memorizing and providing responses to specific trigger words in the questions. You can easily do that with the TRUTH.
#5 Liquids do have their own shape - a drop of water has a shape. What the statement should be is, "Liquids hold their own shape." Having a shape and holding a shape are very different things.
#7 Not everything is made of matter. Is he too young to learn this? I doubt it. He doesn't even comprehend what matter truly is. He's just memorizing and providing responses to specific trigger words in the questions. You can easily do that with the TRUTH.