What kind of matter is fire? Please explain for my kindergarten class.?

Question

What kind of matter is fire? Please explain for my kindergarten class.?

Answer 1

It is an element, like earth, (soil), wind, (weather), hence the ELEMENTS are blowing a storm in, water, ( do I have too?), and ta da, fire. A great song by the Pointer Sisters, just kidding. Get it, there's only 4 elements. There you go, you can take it from here.

Answer 2

You are a teacher and have to ask for the answer to this question?  That is a sad state of affairs.

Answer 3

When you say matter, so you mean solid, liquid, or gas? If so, fire is a gas.

Answer 4

As a power source?

Try this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire#Fire_a...

Answer 5

Fire is not a type of matter.  At all.  

Homeschool, people, and learn with your kids.  They'll do no worse than at public school and on average, a lot better.

Answer 6

Fire is not matter. To be matter, an object must satisfy 5 requirements, including being made up of cells. Fire is not made up of cells.

Answer 7

Fire is not matter . . . it is the gases given off by the heat on the matter casued by the fire that is burning . . .

Answer 8

fire is the burning of matter each thing has its own point where it will burn some take more heat than others.The flame contains gases give off byt the thing burned

Answer 9

Is it plasma? Because plasma is pure energy....

Answer 10

not sure but can you send the name of the kid for my daughter, sounds like a perfect friend for her.  Today mine asked me what dirt was made of.

Maybe they can cure cancer together.

Answer 11

fire is a chemical reaction between a gas (oxygen) and some type of solid/plasma (sulfur, lightening, etc.)