Matter and Its Properties
Chemistry - A Physical Science
Changes
Elements
Wild Card
100
This has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
100
The study of the composition, structure, and properties of matter and the changes that matter undergoes.
What is Chemistry?
100
A change in substance that does not involve a change in the identity of the substance.
What is a physical change?
100
Vertical columns on the periodic table.
What is a family or group?
100
The fundamental building block of matter.
What is the atom?
200
These depend on the amount of matter that is present.
What are extensive properties?
200
This branch of chemistry is most concerned with the study of carbon compounds.
What is Organic Chemistry?
200
One or more substances converted into different substances.
What is a chemical change?
200
The ability of a substance to be drawn into a thin wire.
What is ductility?
200
A mixture that is uniform in composition.
What is homogeneous?
300
A substance's ability to undergo changes that alter its identity.
What is a chemical property?
300
A substance that has a definite composition.
What is a chemical?
300
Substances formed in a chemical reactions.
What are products?
300
When solid, these substances are brittle.
What are non-metals?
300

When baking soda is added to vinegar, this gas is released.

What is carbon dioxide?

400
Has a definite volume and an indefinite shape.
What is Liquid?
400

A chemist in this branch of chemistry might be investigating compounds and processes occurring in living things.

What is biochemistry?

400

A change in state from solid to liquid.

What is melting?

400

Sulfuric acid is composed of three different elements. What is the chemical formula for sulfuric acid?

What is H2SO4?

400

A homogeneous mixture (solution) of solids is given this name.

What is an alloy

500
High temperature physical state in which atoms lose their electrons.
What is plasma?
500

Name the group of elements that are stable, inert gases.

What are the Noble Gases?

500
This law states that energy cannot be created or destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
500

This metal is a liquid at room temperature.

What is mercury?

500

Name three indications that a chemical change has occurred.

What is the release of a gas, a change in odor, a change in color, formation of a precipitate, a change in temperature or the release of light.

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