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Question
Give reason :
When an empty gas jar is inverted over a gas jar containing a coloured gas, the gas also spreads into the empty jar.
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Solution
This shows that gases can fill up all the space that they get, and they have neither a fixed shape nor a fixed volume. They have no free surfaces, either.
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