Review1
A positively charged ion that is the result of an atom losing an electron
What is a Cation?
An atom that is found in the periodic table and is identified by the number of protons
What is an element?
•An atom (or group of atoms) that has an electrical charge as the result of losing or gaining electrons
What is an Ion?
A negatively charged ion that is the result of an atom gaining electrons
What is an Anion?
•the smallest unit of matter that defines a chemical element and contains an electron cloud around
•the net difference between the number of protons and electron in a molecule.
What is the Charge?
•A subatomic particle with a negative charge and negligible mass
What is an Electron?
•a subatomic particle of an atom that is without charge and contributes to the mass of the atom.
What is a Neutron?
•a positively charged subatomic particle of the nucleus of an atom that contributes to the mass of an atom.
What is a proton?
•The center of an atom where the protons and neutrons are located
What is a neucleus?
•atoms of the same element (have the same number of protons) that differ in neutrons
What is an Isotope?
•A table of the chemical elements arranged in order of atomic number, usually in rows, so that elements with similar atomic structure (and hence similar chemical properties) appear in vertical columns.
What is the Periodic Table?
The splitting of a large atomic nucleus into smaller nuclei and releasing energy
What is nuclear Fission or Fission?
Creation of nuclear energy by the combination of atoms
What is nuclear Fusion or fusion?
What is Liquid?
The atomic number of Carbon
What is 6?
The center of an atom where the mass is most concentrated is called
What is the Nucleus?
The 3 type of Radioactive emissions are
The Sun creates energy for earth by converting Hydrogen into Helium which is what kind of nuclear reaction
What is Nuclear Fusion
These are the parts that make up an Alpha Particle
What are 2 protons and 2 neutrons
The half life of a radioactive sample is defined as
The standard Unit for measuring Temperature in Science is
What is Celcius?
A change in the chemical composition of a substance is called
What is a chemical change?
There are 4 states of matter: Solids, Liquids, Gasses, and What?
What is Plasma?
What is the simple everyday name for what we know as Thermal Energy?
What is Heat?