Matter
Properties
Periodic Table
Solutions/Mixtures
Vocabulary
100
the building blocks of all matter
What is an element?
100
Physical
What kind of property is the color of a tennis ball?
100
N
What is the abbreviation for Nitrogen on the Periodic Table?
100
It will dissolve.
Describe what will happen to salt when you place it in water.
100
The smallest particle of an element.
What is the definition of an atom?
200
has a positive charge and is found in the nucleus of an atom.
What is a proton?
200
Malleable
Play-dough can be reshaped. What's another word to describe the same physical property?
200
By Atomic Number.
How are the elements arranged on the periodic table?
200
In a mixture, the substances separate or can be separated. In a solution, one of the substances dissolves in the other substance.
What is the difference between a mixture and a solution?
200
A period.
What is another word for row in the periodic table?
300
A type of matter that is made up of more than one kind of atom.
What is a compound?
300
Good conductor of heat, ductile, and solid.
What are three common physical properties of a pure metal?
300
They all react strongly with water.
What do all the elements in the farthest left column have in common?
300
The iron fillings will separate from the sand, because they are magnetic, a property that sand does not share.
What happens when you place a magnet over iron fillings and sand? Why does this happen?
300
The solute.
What is the name of the substance that dissolves easily in a solution?
400
Answer is on the board.
How would you draw an atom for the following element?
400
Chemical
If a piece of wood burns and ash is left behind, what property of wood is being described?
400
Next to the Noble Gases.
Where do I find the elements that are: brittle, non-conductive, and non-ductile or malleable?
400
Temperature differences.
What effects how quickly something can dissolve? Like honey?
400
An alloy.
What is created when two types of metals combine?
500
1 Nitrogen atom and 3 Hydrogen atom.
For each element, how many atoms make up the following compound?
500
Malleable, smooth, green, dense, light.
What physical properties does the object in the bag have?
500
They rarely react with other elements.
Why are the elements in the farthest right column inactive?
500
Water.
What is the universal solvent?
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