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matter vocab
Question | Answer |
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matter | anything that takes up space |
Physical Property | anything you can observe about an object by using your senses |
our five senses | sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste |
3 states of matter | solid, liquid, gas |
solid | takes up a specific amount of space and has a definite shape |
liquid | has a volume that stays the same but it can change shape |
gas | does not have a definite shape or definite volume |
atoms | the basic building blocks of matter |
evaporation | the process by which a liquid becomes a gas |
volume | the amount of space matter takes up |
mass | the amount of matter in an object (measured by weight) |
Physical changes | changes to matter in which no new kinds of matter are formed |
mixture | a substance that contains two or more different types of matter - the types of matter can be seperated. After a mixture is seperated, the matter is the same as it was before it was mixed |
solution | the particles of the different kinds of matter mixed together evenly - the different kinds of matter in a solution can't be seperated by hand |
chemical changes | changes that form different kinds of matter |