Matter Vocabulary
States of Matter
Phase Changes I
Phase Change II
Behavior of Gases
100

The smallest particle of an element that is still that element.

What is an atom?

100

The particles are tightly packed together.

What is a solid?

100

Liquid to gas

What is evaporation?

100

Clothes drying up under the heat of the sun

What is evaporation?

100

Gases have no definite _____ and _____.

What are shape and volume?

200

Made up of the same type of atom all the way through.

What is an element?

200

The particles slide past each other.

What is a liquid?

200

Solid to liquid

What is melting?

200

Water solidifies when put inside the freezer

What is freezing?

200

Gases move _____ and freely in all directions.

What is rapidly?

300

A characteristic of a substance or element that is always true.

What is a property?

300

The particles tend to move as far apart as possible.

What is a gas?

300

Gas to liquid

What is condensation?

300

Polar ice caps turning to liquid due to effects of global warming

What is melting?

300

Gases _____ readily with other gases due to their particles.

What is mix?

400

A particle made up of more than one atom.

What is a molecule?

400

It is an electrified gas.

What is a plasma?

400

Gas to solid

What is deposition?

400

Smoke coming out of dry ice

What is sublimation?

400

Gas particles move faster and farther when heated and fill the container completely.

What is gas expansion?

500

Something that is made up of either one type of atom or one type of molecule all the way through.

What is a substance?

500

This is what you see in between gas particles.

What is empty space?

500

Solid to gas

What is sublimation?

500

Clouds beginning to form into rain

What is condensation?

500

Gas particles move slower and closer together when cooled.

What is gas contraction?

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