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Vocabb!
Vocab
Question | Answer |
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Property | A characteristic of a substance that can be observed. |
Physical Property | A property that can be observed without changing the identity of the substance. |
Melting Point | Temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid at a given H2o= 0^c |
Boiling Point | Temperature at which a substance changes. |
Chemical Property | A property that can be only observed by changing the identity of the substance. |
Density | The amount of mass per unit of volume. |
Atom | smallest unit ever |
Atomic Number | Number of protons of an atom in a given atom. |
Atomic Mass | Number of protons plus the number of neutrons in an atom |
Gas | Air |
Liquid | an substance that can fill any container |
Solid | Firm and stable in shape, not a liquid. |
Volume | The amount of space something occupies |
Matter | Mass that takes up space |
Mass | the amount of matter in an object. |
Metal | Shiny, Good Conductors, and maleable and ductility |
Non-Metal | Poor conductors, dull, mostly gases |
Matalloid | like both metal and non metal, shiny, malleable, semi conductors |
Homogeneous | Parts are mixed evenly throughout (same). |
Heterogeneous | Parts are uneven throughout (different). |
Solution | Type of mixture where the solute is dissolved/mixed evenly in the solvent. |
Solute | The part of the solution that dissolves. |
Solvent | The part of the solution that the solute dissolves in. |
Homogeneous Mixture | parts are mixed evenly throughout (same) |
Heterogeneous Mixture | parts are uneven throughout (different) |
Solution | type of mixture where the solute is dissolved/mixed evenly in the solvent |
Physical Change | a change that occurs without changing the identity of the substance |
Chemical Change | a change that occurs by changing the identity of the substance |
Mixture | when 2 or more substance are combined physically |
Compound | when 2 or more substances are combined chemically and can't be separated by physical means. |
Atom | Smallest unit of matter |
Element | one of the 100 or more units that make up all matter, and found on the Periodic Table |
Mass | How much matter in something |
Reactant | the elements and compounds you start with in a reaction/equation |
Product | the elements and compounds that you end with in a reaction/equation |
Reactivity | the ability to react with another element or compound |
Coefficient | the number in front of the molecule |
Cell | Smallest unit of living things |
Mitochondria | Part of the cell where energy is made through cellular respiration |
Chloroplast | Part of the plant cell where photosynthesis occurs |
Nucleus | The control center of the cell |
Ribosomes | Part of cell where proteins are made |
Vacuole | Part of the cell where water, food, and waste is stored |
Carbohydrate | Sugar molecule used for energy |
Lipid | Organic compound that makes fats and oils in living things |
Protein | org. compound made of amino acids, that does the work in a cell |
Nucleic Acid | Molecules that carry the instructions for a cell (RNA and DNA) |
Glucose | Sugar made from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |
Photosynthesis | Process plant cells use to make glucose |
Chlorophyll | Pigment in chloroplast that traps the energy in sunlight |
Cellular Respiration | Process all living things do when using oxygen to release energy from glucose |
Mitosis | Type of cellular reproduction where cells make a copy of themselves |
Meiosis | Type of cellular reproduction where cells copy then divide to create sex cells. |