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CHS EXAM WEEK 2012
Question | Answer |
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What is science? | Describes and understands the universe using basic rules that you have discovered through scientific method |
Independent Variable | The factor that is manipuated during an expirement, x axis |
Dependent Variable | Varible that is caused by and depends on the value of the independent variable, y axis |
Control | Shows if the results are accurate or working |
Constant | Factor that dosent change |
Matter | Anything that has mass or volume |
Pure Substance | a substance that cannot be broken down into simpler componets and still maintain the characteristics of the orignial substance |
Compound | 2 or more elements are combined in fixed portions |
Element | Substance comosed of same atoms |
Mixture | Any material made up of 2 or more substances that can be easily separated by physical means |
Heterogenous | The diffrent materials can be easily distinguished |
Homogeneous | Contains 2 or more gases, liquds, or solid substances |
Solution | A homogeneous mixture of particals so small |
Example of Solution | sugar water |
Colliod | A type of mixture that never seattles |
Example of Colliod | fog,milk,smoke |
Suspension | Heterogeneous mixture, visible paritcles |
Example of suspension | salad dressing, and muddy water |
Physical Property | Any characteristic of a material that you can observe withought changing the idenity |
Physical Change | A change in size, shape, or matter |
Chemical Property | A characteristic of a substance that indicates whether it can undergo a chemical change |
Chemical Change | A change to one substance to another |
What is a constant during a phase change? | Tempature |
Molecular Theory of Matter | Molecules constanly move |
Plum pudding model | JJ. Thomson |
JJ. Thomson | Plum pudding model |
Niels Bohr | Electrons travel in fixed orbitals around the nuclues |
Electrons travel in fixed orbitals around the nuclues | Niels Bohr |
The uncuttable atom | Democritus |
Democritus | The uncuttable atom |
Almost all the mass of an atom is found in the nucleus | Ernest Rutherford |
Ernest Rutherford | Almost all the mass of an atom is found in the nucleus |
Model accepted today? | Electron cloud model |
When electrons are shared | covalent |
When electrons are transfered | Ionic |
ab+c=ac+b | Single-Replacement |
ab->a+b | Decomposition |
ab+cd=ac+bd | Double-Displacment |
a+b->ab | Synthesis |
Range of pH scale | 0-14 |
Acidic? | 0-6.9 |
Neutral? | 7 |
Basic? | 7.1-14 |
Half-Line | Time for 1/2 of a radioactive sample to decay |