Properties of Matter
Anything that has mass and takes up space
What is matter?
Matter is made up of this
What are smaller particles?
Cutting a piece of paper is an example of a __________change.
What is physial?
When two or more different substances are mixed, a new substance may be formed. This is called a _________change.
What is chemical?
The scientific study of what matter is made of andhow it changes
People can use this to describe and identify matter
What are properties?
Name a characteristic of particles
What is they are too small to be seen?
During a physical change, the total _________of matter is conserved.
What is weight or mass?
When a chemical change occurs, the total weight of matter does this
What is stays the same/ is conserved/ no matter is gained or lost? (any of these three)
Matter is made up of particles too small to be seen
What are atoms?
Describe solubility
What is the ability of a substance to dissolve?
Give an example of a particle that makes up matter
What is air? (this is just one example)
What are solid, liquid, gas?
Give an example of a chemical change
Answer may be cooking/baking, rusting, burning a paper, rotting good, etc
Matter made up of a single type of atom
Name three properties of matter
Acceptable answers: color, hardness, reflectivity, electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, magnetism, solubility
Blowing up a balloon can be used as a _________to show that particles exist.
What is a model?
Describe a physical change in your own words.
All of the atoms of an element are _____
What is identical?
Explain how evidence can be used to describe matter
Observations or quantative measurements of physical properties of matter can be used as evidence to describe types of matter
Acceptable answers: Inflating a balloon, evaporating liquids, dissolving a substance
Describe how you can prove that the total weight of matter is conserved during a physical change
What is you can measure the matter before and after the change occurs?
Give evidence of a chemical change that you would expect to find when you burn a match
What is change in temperature or emission of light?
Describe a molecule.
What is when atoms join together with other atoms?