Matter & Properties
What is the amount of matter in an object called?
What is mass?
Which state of matter has a definite shape and definite volume?
What is a solid?
Formation of bubbles, color change, and odor change are signs of what?
What is a chemical change?
What is a group of the same species living in one area called?
What is a population?
What type of rock forms from cooled magma or lava?
What is igneous rock?
What physical property is calculated using mass divided by volume?
What is density?
Which state of matter takes the shape of its container but keeps the same volume?
What is a liquid?
The substances present before a chemical reaction are called what?
What are reactants?
What is the maximum population an ecosystem can support called?
What is carrying capacity?
What process breaks rocks into smaller pieces?
What is weathering?
This property describes the ability of a substance to burn easily.
What is flammability?
What happens to particle movement when thermal energy is added?
What is particles move faster?
What law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed?
What is the Law of Conservation of Mass?
What type of symbiotic relationship benefits both organisms?
What is mutualism?
What type of succession begins in an area with no soil?
What is primary succession?
What is the ability of one substance to dissolve in another called?
What is solubility?
What is the process called when a liquid changes into a gas?
What is vaporization?
What type of reaction absorbs energy from the surroundings?
What is an endothermic reaction?
Only about what percent of energy transfers to the next trophic level?
What is 10%?
What process turns sediment into sedimentary rock?
What is lithification?
Name two chemical properties of matter.
What are flammability and oxidation?
According to Charles’s Law, what happens to the volume of a gas when temperature increases?
What is the volume increases?
In exothermic reactions, is thermal energy found with the reactants or products?
What are the products?
What process allows plants to convert sunlight into glucose and oxygen?
What is photosynthesis?
What type of rock forms under extreme heat and pressure?
What is metamorphic rock?