Vocabulary
Molecules vs Atoms
Properties
Matter characteristics
100

What you observe or measure about something that helps identify or describe it. Examples are color, shape, texture

Properties

100

This is what you have when molecules are all the same type.

A substances

100

What determines the properties of a substance?

The properties of the molecules

100

This part of the chromatography experiment is the solvent.

The water

200

A group of atoms joined together in a particular way. Hint: They have the same properties. 

A molecule

200

What form of matter is when molecules are tightly packed together.

A solid

200

This property describes how a substance feels, like smooth, rough, or sticky.

texture

200

This has a fixed shape and fixed volume. The molecules of this state of matter are tightly packed together. 

A solid

300

Matter that is made of more than one substance.

A mixture

300

A tiny piece of matter that is too small to see. They join together to form a molecule. 

An atom

300

These are characteristics you can observe about a substance, like color, smell, or hardness.

Properties

300

The food dye represented what in the chromatography experiment?

The test mixture

400

Anything that has mass and takes up space. 

Matter

400

A bowl of cookie dough is an example of this.

A mixture

400

This property describes if a substance dissolves in water, like sugar does.

Solubility

400

In this, the molecules are freely moving but take the shape of the container. 

A liquid

500

To use any of the 5 senses to gather information about something.

To observe

500

What is made up of the same types of molecules?

A substance

500

Using only a high powered microscope, a person could observe the shape, weight and size properties. What are they observing?

The properties of a molecule

500

To pull on an object, even without touching it. This what some molecules can do to another molecule. 

Attract

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