Ice is a solid form of matter that is changing into liquid form due to global warming i.e an increase in the temperature of the world.It means matter can change state with a change in the temperature of the surroundings. e.g water is liquid at room temperature but solid when cooled. In a similar way, water becomes steam when heated. The process of cooling or heating affects the arrangement of particles in matter.
The answer is ‘Yes’. It can definitely change its shape, size, and volume. For examples, water turns into ice upon freezing, here the form of water converts from the liquid state into the solid state; the matter itself doesn’t change but it transforms its shape. The components of water remain the same just the shape changes. Evaporation changes the form of water from liquid state to gaseous state.
Its physical state depends on the physical conditions such as temperature, climate, humidity, etc. Usually, in order to change the state of liquids into a solid state, one reduces the temperature. Generally, liquids are less dense than solids because their molecules have little or no space in between them. The freezing process compacts the molecules into a smaller space.
The process of changing a matter from solid state to a liquid state is Melting or Fusion. Whereas, the process of converting it from liquid state to solid state is Freezing. Vaporization or boiling is another process that turns a matter into a gaseous state from liquid state. It can turn from gaseous form to liquid form with the help of condensation.
Sublimation is a process which transforms it from solid form to gaseous form directly. Whereas deposition transforms gaseous state to solid state. Ionization is a process that converts gas into plasma. Lastly, the process of recombination changes plasma into gas. The term phase is a synonym for state of matter, although a system can contain several immiscible phases of the same state. Solid, liquid, gaseous and plasma are the four states of substances.