Matter Vocabulary
Classifying Matter
Changes in Matter
Physical & Chemical Changes
Everyday Examples
100
Everything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
100
In this state of matter, particles vibrate in place but do not move freely.
What is solid?
100
The ability to burn easily
What is flammability?
100
This question helps determine if a change is chemical: “Was a new ______ formed?”
What is substance?
100
Crushing a can is an example of ______ change.
What is physical change?
200
The amount of matter in something
What is mass?
200
Particles in this state slide past each other, allowing it to flow.
What is liquid?
200
When something with iron reacts to water and oxygen in the air it forms _________
What is rust?
200
The type of change that happens but is easily reversible (most of the time?)
What is a physical change?
200
Burning wood in a campfire is _______ change.
What is a chemical change?
300
Definite shape and size
What is solid?
300
Particles in this state move freely and spread out to fill any container.
What is a gas?
300
A physical property of attraction to certain metals
What is magnetism?
300
Dissolving sugar in water is this type of change.
What is a physical change?
300
Rotting fruit is an example of a ?
Chemical Change
400
Takes the shape of the container it is in, but has a definite volume
What is liquid?
400
What two phases occur in the condensation process?
gas and liquid
400
This property can be observed without changing a substance’s identity and helps distinguish one substance from another.
What is a physical property?
400
Name 3 pieces of evidence that prove mixing baking soda and vinegar are a chemical change.
a gas has formed, bag expanded, fizzing, bubbling, mixture became cold
400
Boiling water in a kettle causes the water to ______.
What is evaporate?
500
This fills a container and has no definite volume
Gas
500
As temperature increases, particle motion does this.
What is increase?
500
This tool is used to measure volume of liquids
What is a graduated cylinder?
500
This is used to measure the mass, or amount of matter in an object
What is a triple beam balance?
500
This is a mixture of 2 or more substances where one of the substances dissolves into the other.
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