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Chapter 3
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Matter | Everything that has mass and takes up space. |
| Element | The ingredients that make up all other substances. Can't be broken down into other substances. |
| Metals | Good condutors of electricity and heat. Can bend without breaking. Most have a gray color. |
| Nonmetals | Do not conduct heat, electricity very well. May be a gas or a solid. |
| Semimetals (metalliod) | Sometimes like metals and sometimes like nonmetals. |
| Atoms | The smaller part of an element that still acts like that element. |
| Atomic theory | States that everything is made of atoms |
| Compound | A type of matter made of two or more elements |
| Molecule | Smallest particle of a compound that still acts like that compound |
| Proton |