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Science Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Matter | Everything that has mass and takes up space. |
| Elements | Substance made of only 1 kind of atom. |
| Metals | Good conductors 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. |
| Semi-Metals | Sometimes like metals and sometimes like nonmetals. |
| Atom | The basic building block of matter. Can't be any smaller. |
| 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 nucleus. |
| Neutron | No charge. Found in the nucleus. |
| Electron | Negative charge. Orbits the nucleus. |