What is Matter?
How is it Identified?
Changing it
Improving it
100

Mixes completely with a different material.

Dissolves

100

A combination of two or more substances whose particles are not joined together.

Mixture
100

A change of a substance from one state of matter to another.

State change

100

The properties that you want a material or a solution to have.

Criteria
200

Anything that takes up space and has weight.

Matter

200

A characteristic of matter that can be observed or measured.

Property

200

A process where one or more substances are changed into new substances.

Reaction

200

A limit that keeps you from doing certain things.

Constraint

300

Tiny pieces that make up matter.

Particles

300

A material where each part of it is made of the same type of particle.

Substance

300

To get smaller.

Contract

300

A reason to improve a substance.

Durability/Helpfulness/Usability 

400

A mixture in which the particles of a material are dissolved with the particles of another material.

Solution

400

A property that describes whether a substance can dissolve in another substance.

Solubility 

400

To get larger.

Expand

400

The first step in engineering a new substance.

Define the problem

500

The way the particles in a piece of matter move.

State of matter

500

A property that describes how well a substance allows electricity to pass through it.

electrical conductivity

500

To be kept at the same total amount of something.

Conserve

500

One way to create a new substance.

Combine known substances/Change state of matter

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