Matter Basics
This is anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
Protons have this type of electric charge.
What is positive?
A pure substance made of two or more elements chemically combined.
What is a compound?
A mixture that looks the same throughout.
What is a homogeneous mixture?
The substance that dissolves in a solution.
What is the solute?
The smallest unit of matter
What is an atom?
The number of protons in an atom determines this property.
What is the element/atomic number?
A mixture where substances are physically combined but not chemically.
What is a mixture?
A mixture where substances can be seen and separated easily.
What is a heterogeneous mixture?
The substance that does the dissolving in a solution.
What is the solvent?
Give an example of something that is NOT matter.
What is light, heat, or sound?
Elements are divided into these three categories.
What are metals, nonmetals, and metalloids?
Which can be separated by physical methods: compounds or mixtures?
What are mixtures?
Salad, oil and water, and sand with pebbles are examples of this type of mixture.
What is a heterogeneous mixture?
Salt water is an example of this type of mixture.
What is a solution/homogeneous mixture?
True or False: Air is considered matter.
True
The atomic mass of an atom is made up of these two particles
What are protons and neutrons?
The properties of a compound are __________ from the elements that make it.
What are different?
A mixture with large particles that settle out if left alone.
What is a suspension?
The most common solvent, also called the “universal solvent.”
What is water?
Name two examples of matter that you cannot see.
What are air and gases like oxygen or carbon dioxide?
The element symbol “Au” represents this element.
What is Gold?
Water (H₂O) can be broken into these two elements.
What are hydrogen and oxygen?
A special type of heterogeneous mixture with medium-sized particles that don’t settle.
What is a colloid?
In carbonated water, this gas is the solute.
What is carbon dioxide?