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element vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what does a element do? | makes up matter |
| what is a element? | groups of same kind of atom |
| what does a element look like? | the periodic table |
| what does a chemical formula do? | it represents the atoms of the elements and their ratios in a chemical compound |
| what is a chemical formula? | element symbol with the amount of each one noted with a small number after the symbol |
| what does a chemical formula look like? | anythign like h2o h o and co2 |
| what does a compound do? | combination of different atoms bonded together to make new substances |
| what is a compound? | substance made of two or more types of atoms bonded together |
| what does a compound look like? | two hydrogen and one oxygen to make H20 |
| what does matter do? | makes up everything around us |
| what is matter? | anything that has mass and takes up space |
| what does matter look like? | anything you can see |
| what does subscript do? | a number written to the right of a chemical symbol and slightly below it |
| what is subscript? | shows how many atoms are in a substance |
| what does it look like ? | a small number to he bottom right of the chemical symbol |