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The temperature scale that defines the melting point of ice as 32 degrees and the boiling point as 212 degrees.
Fahrenheit scale
The temperature scale that defines the melting point of ice as 0 degrees and the boiling point of water as 100 degrees.
Celsius scale
The force with which gravity attracts a body.
weight
A constant property that refers to the amount of matter an object contains.
mass
A property that is not dependent on the size of an object.
intensive property
The ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum to its speed in a given medium.
refractive index
A solid in which the constituent atoms have a regular arrangement.
crystalline solid
A solid in which the constituent atoms or molecules are arranged in random or disordered positions.
amorphous solid
What is an example of an amorphous solid?
glass
A difference in the two indices of refraction exhibited by most crystalline materials.
birefringence
______________ is a measure of heat intensity, or the amount of heat in a substance.
temperature
What is the most commonly used temperature scale in science?
Celsius scale
What is the formula for density?
density equals mass over volume
D = M/V
________ __________ have definite geometric forms because of the orderly arrangement of their atoms.
crystalline solids
Crystalline solids refract a beam of light in two different light-ray components, resulting in _______ __________
double refraction
What is the basic metric unit of volume
liter
What physical state has both shape and volume?
solid
A physical property of matter that is equivalent to the mass per unit volume of a substance.
density
The basic building blocks of all substances are__________
elements
A centigram is equivalent to _________gram(s).
1/100 or 0.01
In any type of _________the relative locations and distances between its atoms repeat throughout the solid.
crystal
What causes a transparent solid immersed in liquid to seemingly disappear?
similar refractive indices
Density is an intensive property of matter and can be used in__________.
identification
What is the simplest type of balance for weighing?
The equal-arm balance
How does mass differ from weight?
Mass refers to the amount of matter an object contains and is independent of location. Weight is the force with which gravity attracts a body and is not independent of location.