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Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Matter | Everything that has mass and takes up space |
| Element | The ingredients that make up other substances. Cant be broken down. |
| Metals | Conduct Electricity and heat the best than any other substance in the world. |
| NonMetals | Do Not Conduct Electricity very compared to metals |
| SemiMetals | Sometimes like Nonmetals and sometimes like metals. |
| ATOM | The smallest part of an 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 | Positive charge. Found in the nucleus |
| NEUTRON | No charge. Found in the nucleus |
| ELECTRON | Negative charge. Orbits the nucleus |
| SOLID | Has a definite volume or shape. Particles are very close together, and don’t move past each other. Keeps its shape |
| LIQUID | Has a definite volume but not shape. Particles can move past each other. Takes shape of container |
| gas | No definite volume or shape. Particles spread out evenly and take shape of container. Can be squeezed into a smaller volume |
| plasma | Like a gas, but conducts electricity like a metal. Occurs with high temps or electric charge |
| MELTING POINT | Solid to liquid or liquid to solid. Same temperature as freezing point |
| EVAPORATION | When liquids become a gas |
| CONDENSATION | When gas becomes a liquid. Gas particles touch a cold surface and the temperature drops |
| BOILING POINT | The temperature at which evaporation occurs |
| MIXTURE | Two or substances that mix together but each keeps its own identity |
| SOLUTION | A mixture where substance spreads out evenly and will not settle |
| SOLUTE | The substance being dissolved |
| SOLUBILITY | A way to measure how much a material dissolves into another |