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Fall Semester Vocabulary Review

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Proton   positively charged and found in nucleus  
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Neutron   neutral or no charge and found in the nucleus  
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Electron   negatively charged and located in electron cloud  
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Atomic Number   Number of protons in nucleus of each atom of that element  
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Periodic Table of Elements   Chart to organize and display known elements; in order by atomic number  
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Group   Columns on periodic table;also known as “families”;Elements have similar chemical and physical properties & same number of valence electrons  
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Metals   Shiny, good conductors, mostly solids, malleable (can be shaped) & ductile (can be drawn into wires), located on left and center of periodic table  
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Chemical Symbol   One or two letter code that stands for the element on the periodic table  
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Chemical Formula   Way of describing the elements and number of atoms that make up one molecule of a compound using symbols, subscripts, and coefficients  
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Coefficient   Number placed in front of a formula to balance an equation  
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Chemical Reaction   The process by which atoms of one or more substances are rearranged to form different substances  
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Reactants   Starting substances in chemical reaction  
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Products   Substances formed during a chemical reaction  
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Law of Conservation of Mass   States that matter can neither be created nor destroyed, it can only change form  
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Force   A push or a pull  
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Speed   The distance traveled by an object in a given amount of time  
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Velocity   The speed of an object and its direction of motion  
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Acceleration   Change in speed or direction;Can be positive (speeding up) or negative (slowing down)  
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Balanced Forces   Equal in size and opposite in direction;Do not cause a change in motion  
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Unbalanced Forces   Always cause a change in motion;NOT equal in size or opposite in direction  
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Newton’s First Law   An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by an unbalanced force  
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Newton’s Second Law   The greater the force applied to an object, the greater the acceleration; The smaller the mass of an object, the greater its acceleration when a force is applied; Force = Mass X Acceleration  
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Newton’s Third Law   For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction; Forces act in pairs  
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Star   Huge object in space made up of gas and giving off light and heat from nuclear reactions  
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Nuclear Fusion   nuclei of atoms are joined together, releasing energy that power stars like the sun  
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Apparent Magnitude   Measures how bright objects appear to us, not how bright they actually are  
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Absolute Magnitude   Measures the actual brightness of the object  
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Galaxy   A large group or cluster of stars in the universe  
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Comet   small body of rock, ice or cosmic dust; Give off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the sun  
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Asteroids   Objects of rock, metal and ice that orbit the sun; most found between Mars and Jupiter  
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Electromagnetic Wave   made by vibrating electrons  
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Light Year   distance that light can travel in one year; used to measure distances in space  
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