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Matter and Energy
Unit 1 Vocabulary
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 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 |