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Science Ch 1 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| WHMIS | Workplace Hazardous Material Information System |
| Hazard Symbol | warnings printed on containers to indicate that either the container or the product is dangerous. |
| Matter | Anything that has mass and volume |
| Mass | the amount of matter in a substance or object (often measured in grams) |
| Volume | the amount of space a substance or an object occupies (often measured in liters) |
| Chemical change | is a change in matter that occurs when substances combine to form a new substance. |
| Physical changes | a change in matter in witch the appearance may change but no chemical bonds are broken or made and no new substance is formed. |
| State | a property of a substance describing it as a solid, a liquid or a gas. |
| Kinetic Energy | the energy of motion |
| Kinetic molecular theory | explains what happens to matter when the kinetic energy of particles changes. |
| Melting | the change of state form a solid to a liquid. |
| Melting point | the temperature were a substance melts. |
| Boiling | the change of state from a liquid to a gas. |
| Boiling point | the temperature were a substance boils. |
| Condensation | the change of state from a gas to a liquid. |
| Solidification/freezing | the change of state from a liquid to a solid. |
| Sublimation | the change of a state from solid to a gas. |
| Deposition | the change of state from a gas to a solid. |
| Physical properties | characteristics of matter that can be observed or measured. |
| Pure substance | a substance that is made up of only one kind of matter. |
| element | a pure substance that cannot be broken down or separated into simpler substances. |
| compound | a pure substance composed of at least two elements combined in a specific way. |
| electrons | negatively charges particles surrounding the atomic nucleus. |
| nucleus | the tiny, dense, positively charged centre of the atom. |
| Protons | positively charges particles the atomic nucleus. |
| neutron | uncharged particle in the atom nucleus. |
| atom | the smallest particle of an element that retains the properties of that element. |
| subatomic particles | particles such as protons, neutrons, and electrons that are smaller than atoms |