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Ch. 2
Voc
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| property | the characteristics that help identify an object |
| physical properties | the properties that describe an object, such as, touch, smell, taste, weight, shape, color, density, mass |
| chemical properties | how one kind of matter reactes with another |
| weight | the measure of how hard gravity pull on an object |
| newton | the metric unit for measuring weight |
| balance | an instrument used to measure mass |
| standard mass | small objects that are use with a balance to measure mass |
| graduated cylinder | a round glass or plastic cylinder use to measure the volume of liquids |
| meniscus | the curved surface of a liquid |
| displacement of water | method of measuring the volume of an irregular shaped object |
| density | a measure of how tightly the matter of a substance is packed into a given volume |