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Vocabulary Topic 1
Vocabulary topic 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Mass | the amount of matter in an object |
| volume | the amount of space that matter occupies |
| weight | a measure of the force of gravity on an object |
| density | a measure of the mass of a material in a given volume |
| matter | anything that has mass and takes up space |
| substance | a single kind of matter that is pure and has a specific set of properties |
| physical property | a characteristic of a pure substance that can be observed without changing it into another substance |
| atom | the basic particle from which all elements are made |
| element | a pure substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical or physical means |
| molecule | a neutral group of two or more atoms held together by covalent bonds |
| compound | a substance made of two or more elements chemically combined in a specific ratio or proportion |
| mixture | two or more substances that are together in the same place but their atoms are not chemically bonded |
| physical change | alters the form or appearance of matter but does not turn any substance in that matter into a different substance |
| chemical change | a change in matter that produces one or more new substances |