Classifying Matter
Properties of Matter
Elements
100
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is Matter?
100
These are characteristics of a substance.
What are physical properties?
100
These are found in the period table, grouped according to their physical and chemical properties.
What are elements?
200
They contain only one kind of particle.
What are pure substances?
200
These are characteristic behaviours of a substance.
What are chemical properties?
200
Elements that are grouped in horizontal rows.
What are periods?
300
They contain two or more elements in fixed proportions
What are compounds?
300
Some examples would be colour, odour, texture, mass, volume
What are physical properties?
300
Elements grouped in vertical columns.
What are families or groups?
400
They are pure substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.
What are elements?
400
Some examples would be combustibility, flammability, and reaction with acids.
What are chemical properties?
400
All elements in the same period have the same number of these.
What are atomic orbits?
500
They contain two or more pure substances
What are mixtures?
500
Contain two or more visible components.
What are heterogeneous mixtures?
500
All elements in a group have the same number of electrons in... _______
What is the outer shell?
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