Which statement best summarizes the Law of Conservation of Matter?

The total amount of matter is constant; it is only transformed.

Matter can be converted into energy and destroyed during physical changes.

Geological processes like weathering create new matter from nothing.

The mass of an object decreases when its physical form is altered.

A large granite boulder with a mass of 500 kg is slowly broken down by weathering into smaller rocks and sand over many years. If you could collect every single particle from the original boulder, what would their total mass be?

It is impossible to predict the final mass.

It is converted into heat and energy.

It is destroyed by the intense pressure.

It changes its physical state but is not lost.

It combines with other elements to create entirely new matter.

Breaking the rock destroyed a small amount of its mass.

The Law of Conservation of Matter does not apply to this type of change.

Some rock was likely lost as fine dust that was not collected.

The force of the break converted some mass directly into energy.

It is relocated and changed in form.

Its total mass significantly decreases.