Carol placed a lid over a pot of boiling water. After five minutes, she removed the lid and noticed water drops had formed all over the lid's inner surface. Which statement describes the change in the water vapor molecules as they changed to liquid?

When a lid is placed on a pot of boiling water, water drops form all over the lid's inner surface. The vapors of water that are formed up on boiling escape in to the surroundings when there is no lid on the pot. When the pot is covered with a lid the gaseous water molecules condense on the cooler inner surface of the lid to form liquid water droplets. So, the best statement that describes the change in water vapor molecules as they change to liquid, a phenomenon called condensation, is that the change here is a physical change.