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Matter and Energy
Unit 1 Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
| mass | the amount of matter in an object |
| weight | a measure of gravitational force on a an object |
| volume | the amount of space that an object takes up |
| density | a measure of the amount of mass in a given volume |
| physical property | a characteristic of of a substance that can be observed and measured without changing the identity of the substance |
| chemical property | a substance's ability to change into a new substance with different properties |
| physical change | a change that effects one or more physical properties of a substance |
| chemical change | when one or more substances change into entirely new substances with different properties |
| law of conservation mass | states that in ordinary chemical and physical changes, mass is not created or destroyed but is only transformed into different substances |
| atom | the smallest unit of an element that maintains the properties of that element |
| element | made up of one or more of the same kind of atom chemically combined |
| compound | made up of different kinds of atoms chemically combined |
| mixture | a variety of elements and compounds that are not chemically combined with each other |
| pure substance | a substances that has definite physical and chemical properties |
| heterogeneous | a mixture that does not have a uniform composition |
| homogeneous | a mixture that does have a uniform composition |
| solid | a substance tat has a definite volume and shape |
| liquid | a substance that has a definite volume but not a definite shape |
| gas | does not have a definite volume or shape |
| freezing | the changing in a state in which a liquid becomes a solid |
| melting | a change of state in which a solid turns into a liquid |
| evaporation | when liquid becomes a gas |
| boiling | when a liquid changes to a gas rapidly or a vapor |
| condensation | when gas changes into a liquid |
| sublimation | when a solid changes directly into a gas |
| deposition | when a gas changes directly into a solid |