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6th Grade Unit 1
Investigating Chemicals
Definition | Term |
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groups of similar things based on characteristics or properties | Classifications |
staying the same; unchanging | Constancy |
equipment, such as an eye / face wash, a fire blanket, and a fire extinguisher, used to take care of an emergency situation. | Emergency safety equipment |
repeated sequence; arranged according to a rule or natural phenomenon; a trend in data; used to predict what comes next | Patterns |
equipment, such as goggles and gloves, used for protection in an investigation | Personal protective equipment (PPE) |
characteristics of objects, organisms, or events | Properties |
use of evidence to construct testable explanations and predictions of natural phenomena, as well as the knowledge generated through this process | Science |
a group of parts that work together | System |
the formation of a new substance with different properties; cannot be undone by physical means | Chemical change |
a representation of a compound in which the elements are represented by their symbols and subscripts represent the number of atoms of each element | Chemical formula |
representation of the name of an element; written as a capital letter or a capital letter followed by a lowercase letter(s) | Chemical symbol |
a pure substance made by chemically combining two or more elements; represented by a chemical formula | Compound |
a pure substance that cannot be broken down chemically into simpler substances | Element |
change which alters the physical properties of a substance without changing its identity | Physical change |
the solid that is formed as a result of a chemical change | Precipitate |
a substance that is not mixed with any other substance | Pure substance |
the number written to the right and slightly below an element in a chemical formula; represents the number of atoms of an element present in a chemical formula | Subscript |