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Vocabulary
Vocabulary terms
Question | Answer |
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Matter | Anything that has mass and takes up space |
Chemistry | The study of the properties of matter and how matter works |
Substance | A single kind of matter that is pure |
Physical Property | A characteristic of a pure substance that can be observed without changing it into another substance |
Chemical Property | A characteristic of a pure substance that describes its ability to change into different substances |
Element | A pure substance that can't be broken down into any other substance by physical or chemical means |
Atom | The basic particle from which all elements are made |
Chemical Bond | The force of attraction between two atoms |
Molecules | Group of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds |
Compound | A pure substance made of two or more elements chemically combined in a set ratio |
Chemical Formula | A formula that gives the elements in a compound and the ratio of atoms |
Mixture | Two or more substances that are mixed together but not chemically combined |
Heterogeneous Mixture | A mixture in which pure substances are unevenly distributed throughout the mixture |
Homogeneous Mixture | A mixture in which substances are evenly distributed throughout the mixture |
Solution | An example |
Weight | A measure of the force of gravity on you |
Mass | The amount of matter in an object |
International System of Units | Used to measure the properties of matter |
Volume | The amount of space that matter occupies |
Density | The measurement of hoe much mass of a substance is contained in a given volume |
Physical Change | Any change that alters the form or appearance of matter that doesn't make any substance in the matter into difference substances |
Chemical Change | A change in matter that produces one or more new substances |
Law of Conservation of Mass | The fact that matter is not created or destroyed in any chemical or physical means |
Energy | The ability to work and cause change |
Temperature | A measure of the average energy of random motion of particles of matter |
Thermal Energy | Total energy of all of the particles in an object |
Endothermic Change | A change in which energy is taken in |
Exothermic Change | Release energy |