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Unit 1 Matter
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
| Mass | a measure of them amount of matter in an object |
| weight | a measure of the gravitational force exerted on an object in the universe |
| volume | the amount of space that an object takes up or occupies |
| density | the ratio of the mass of a substance to the volume of the substance |
| physical property | a characteristic of a substance that does not involve a chemical change such as density color or hardness |
| chemical property | a property of matter that describes a substance's ability to participate in chemical reation |
| physical change | a change of matter form one to another without a change in chemical properties |
| chemical change | a change that occurs when one or more substances change into entirely new substances with different properties |
| law of conservation | the law that states that energy cannot be created or destroyed but can be changed from one to another |