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matter
book 3 unit 1, lesson 1-6
Term | Definition |
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matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
mass | the amount of matter in an object |
weight | a measure of the gravitational force on an object |
volume | the amount of space that an object takes up, or occupies |
density | a measure of the amount of mass in a given volume |
physical property | a characteristic of a substance that can be observed and measured without changing the identity of the substance |
chemical propety | describes a substance's ability to change into a new substance with different properties |
physical change | a change that affects one or more physical properties of a substance |
chemical change | a change that occurs when one or more substances change into an entirely new substance with different properties |
law of conservation of mass | states that in ordinary chemical and physical changes, mass is not created or destroyed but it only transferred into different substances |
atoms | the smallest unit of an element that maintains the properties of that element |
element | one or more of the same kind of atom chemically combined |
compound | different kinds of atoms chemically combined |
mixture | a variety of elements and compounds that are not chemically combined with each other |
pure substances | elements and compounds. a substance that has definite physical and chemical properties such as appearance, melting point, and reactivity |
heterogeneous | a mixture that does not have uniform composition |
homogeneous | mixtures were the substances are evenly spread throughtout |
solid | substance has a definite volume and shape |
liquid | substance has a definite volume but not a definite shape |
gas | substance does not have a definite volume or shape |
freezing | the change in state in which a liquid becomes a solid |
melting | the change of state from a solid to a liquid |
evaporation | particles gain enough energy that they escape from the surface of the liquid and become a gas |
boiling | a rapid change from a liquid to a gas, or vapor |
condensation | the change of a state from a gas to a liquid |
sublimation | the change from its solid state directly into a gas |
deposition | the change in state from a gas directly to a solid |