Properties of Matter
Trait or characteristic of matter that helps identify it
What is a property?
Standard metric unit for mass
What is a gram?
Number of common states of matter
What is three?
"Building block" of all matter
What is an atom?
The amount of space an object takes up
What is volume?
Number of elements on the periodic table
What is 118?
Two units of length in the metric system
What are millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers?
State of matter with the most energy
What is gas?
State of matter that has volume but no definite shape
What is liquid?
Anything that has mass and volume
What is matter?
An object with less than 1 g/ml does this on water (because water has a density of 1g/ml)
What is float?
Scientific tool used to measure mass
What is a balance?
State of matter where its particles slide past each other
What is a liquid?
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
A property of both magnets and iron
What is magnetism?
Property that tells when an object moves from a liquid to a solid
What is freezing point?
Two units in the metric system commonly used to measure volume
What are milliliters and liters?
Examples of everyday types and states of matter
What are food (solid), water (liquid), and air we breathe (gas)?
The force that keeps objects from floating into space
What is gravity?
The state of matter that has definite size and shape
What is solid?
Two different types of matter are made of the same elements such as carbon dioxide (CO2) and carbon monoxide (CO) but have different properties
What happens when substances are made up of different combinations of the same elements in different amounts?
Unit of measure in the metric system best used for measuring a football field
What is a meter?
System of weights and measures used in science
What is the metric system?
The measure of the pull of gravity on an object
What is weight?
The reason a person weighs less on the Moon than on Earth
What is the difference in the pull of gravity (less on the Moon)?