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Science Vocab
Question | Answer |
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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. |