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Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Property | A characteristic of a substance that can be observed. |
| Physical Property | A property that can be observed without changing the identity of the substance. |
| Melting Point | Temperature at which a substance changes from a solid to a liquid at a given H2o= 0^c |
| Boiling Point | Temperature at which a substance changes. |
| Chemical Property | A property that can be only observed by changing the identity of the substance. |
| Density | The amount of mass per unit of volume. |
| Atom | smallest unit ever |
| Atomic Number | Number of protons of an atom in a given atom. |
| Atomic Mass | Number of protons plus the number of neutrons in an atom |
| Gas | Air |
| Liquid | an substance that can fill any container |
| Solid | Firm and stable in shape, not a liquid. |
| Volume | The amount of space something occupies |
| Matter | Mass that takes up space |
| Mass | the amount of matter in an object. |
| Metal | Shiny, Good Conductors, and maleable and ductility |
| Non-Metal | Poor conductors, dull, mostly gases |
| Matalloid | like both metal and non metal, shiny, malleable, semi conductors |
| Homogeneous | Parts are mixed evenly throughout (same). |
| Heterogeneous | Parts are uneven throughout (different). |
| Solution | Type of mixture where the solute is dissolved/mixed evenly in the solvent. |
| Solute | The part of the solution that dissolves. |
| Solvent | The part of the solution that the solute dissolves in. |
| Homogeneous Mixture | parts are mixed evenly throughout (same) |
| Heterogeneous Mixture | parts are uneven throughout (different) |
| Solution | type of mixture where the solute is dissolved/mixed evenly in the solvent |
| Physical Change | a change that occurs without changing the identity of the substance |
| Chemical Change | a change that occurs by changing the identity of the substance |
| Mixture | when 2 or more substance are combined physically |
| Compound | when 2 or more substances are combined chemically and can't be separated by physical means. |
| Atom | Smallest unit of matter |
| Element | one of the 100 or more units that make up all matter, and found on the Periodic Table |
| Mass | How much matter in something |
| Reactant | the elements and compounds you start with in a reaction/equation |
| Product | the elements and compounds that you end with in a reaction/equation |
| Reactivity | the ability to react with another element or compound |
| Coefficient | the number in front of the molecule |
| Cell | Smallest unit of living things |
| Mitochondria | Part of the cell where energy is made through cellular respiration |
| Chloroplast | Part of the plant cell where photosynthesis occurs |
| Nucleus | The control center of the cell |
| Ribosomes | Part of cell where proteins are made |
| Vacuole | Part of the cell where water, food, and waste is stored |
| Carbohydrate | Sugar molecule used for energy |
| Lipid | Organic compound that makes fats and oils in living things |
| Protein | org. compound made of amino acids, that does the work in a cell |
| Nucleic Acid | Molecules that carry the instructions for a cell (RNA and DNA) |
| Glucose | Sugar made from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen |
| Photosynthesis | Process plant cells use to make glucose |
| Chlorophyll | Pigment in chloroplast that traps the energy in sunlight |
| Cellular Respiration | Process all living things do when using oxygen to release energy from glucose |
| Mitosis | Type of cellular reproduction where cells make a copy of themselves |
| Meiosis | Type of cellular reproduction where cells copy then divide to create sex cells. |