Scientific Investigation
Evidence gathered in an experiment.
What is data?
The term defined as a single kind of matter.
What is substance?
The term describing the primary structural forms of matter.
What are phases?
Law stating that matter can be neither created nor destroyed.
What is the conservation of mass?
The smallest part of an element which contains the chemical properties of that element.
What is an atom?
Factors that can change in an experiment.
What are variables?
The term defined as any observable or measurable trait used to describe or identify a substance.
What is property?
The phase of matter with definite volume and no defitite shape.
What is liquid?
Any alteration to matter that does not change the ID of the substance.
What is physical change?
The substance in a solution that is being dissolved.
What is the solute?
The term for observations/recorded data that can be counted or measured.
What is quatitative?
The formula for calculating density.
What is d = m/v?
The phase in which particles float freely with no distinct arrangement.
What is gas?
A term describing change of matter that absorbs energy.
What is endothermic?
A term describing a mixture where different substances are clearly visible.
What is heterogenous?
The definition of control variables.
What are factors that should stay the same?
The definition of mass.
What is the amount of matter in an object?
The change in structural form from liquid to gas.
What is vaporization?
The definition of energy.
What is the ability to do work or cause change?
The definition of solubility.
What is the ability of a substance to be dissolved?
The three types of variables in a scientific test.
What are independent, dependent and control?
What is the force of gravity on an object?
The altering of the structural form of matter when energy causes particles of a substance to move faster and farther apart.
What is phase change?
The definition of thermal energy.
What is the total energy of the particles in an object?
The definition of compound as it refers to the classification of matter.
What are two or more different elements chemically joined together in a fixed ratio?