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matter
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Solid: | Solid: closely packed particles cause matter to have a definite shape and definite volume. |
| Crystalline solids: | Crystalline solids: particles form a regular repeating pattern called crystals. |
| Amorphous solids: | Amorphous solids: particles not arranged in a repeating pattern. |
| Liquid: | Liquid: particles are free to move so a liquid has a definite volume but no definite shape. |
| Surface Tension: | Surface Tension: An inward force, or pull among the molecules in a liquid that brings the molecules on the surface closer together. |
| Viscosity: | Viscosity: A liquids’s resistance to flowing. |
| Gas: | Gas: particles are able to move and spread out filling all space available, thus gases has no definite shape or definite volume. |
| Pressure: | Pressure: gas particles constantly collide with one another and the walls of their container. Pressure is the outward push divided by the area of the walls of the container. |
| Temperature: | Temperature: the higher the temperature the faster particles |
| Melting: | Melting: When a solid changes to a liquid |
| freezing: | Freezing: When a liquid changes to a solid |
| Freezing point: | Freezing point: the temperature when a substance freezes. |
| Melting point: | Melting point: the temperature at which a substance melts. |
| Vaporization: | Vaporization: When a liquid changes to a gas |
| Evaporation: | Evaporation: takes place only on the surface of the liquid. |
| Boiling: | Boiling: When vaporization occurs both below the and at the surface. |
| Boiling Point: | Boiling Point: Temperature at which a liquid boils. |
| Condensation: | Condensation: When a gas changes to a liquid. |
| Sublimation: | Sublimation: When a substance changes straight from a solid to a gas. |
| Charles’s Law: | Charles’s Law: When the temperature of a gas at a constant pressure is increased the volume is increased, if the temperature is decreased then the volume is decreased. |
| Directly proportional: | Directly proportional: as one amount increases, another amount increases at the same rate. |
| Boyles Law: | Boyles Law: When the pressure of a gas at a constant temperature is increased the volume is decreases, if the temperature is decreased then the volume is increases. |
| Inversely proportional: | Inversely proportional: When the value of one variable increases, the other decreases. |