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Science Chapter 2!!
Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
| chemistry: | the study of the properties of matter and how matter changes |
| substance | a single kind of matter that is pure (always has a specific set of properties) |
| physical property | characteristic of a pure substance that can be observed without changing into another substance |
| chemical property | 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 substances by chemical or physical means |
| atom: | the basic particle from which all elements are made of |
| chemical bond | force of attraction between two atoms |
| molecule | groups of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds |
| compound | 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 | made of two or more substances (elements compounds or both) that are together in the same place but aren't chemically combined |
| heterogenous mixture | mixture where pure substances unevenly distributed throughout mixture |
| homogenous | mixture where substances are evenly distributed throughout the mixture |
| solution | example of a homogenous mixture |