Electric and Thermal
Vocabulary
States of Matter
Solutions
Physical Properties of Matter
100

This allows good flow of electricity

What is an electrical conductor?

100

This is matter consisting of many particles.

What is bulk matter?

100

They are solid, liquid and gas

What are the 3 states of matter?

100

A mixture in which something is dissoved into something else.

What is a solution?

100

These can be observed with the human eye

What are physical properties of matter?

200

This material prevents the flow of electrical or heat energy

What is an insulator

200

A substance that has no fixed shape and yields easily to pressure

What is a fluid?

200

This is the state of matter in which particles are least tightly arranged.

What is gas?

200
A material that is dissolved into a liquid.

What is a solute?

300

A rubber coating on a metal pot handle, for instance

What is an insulator?

300

This is a physical property of matter that relates to how materials interact with light.

What is color?

300

The temperature at which a solid turns to a liquid.

What is the melting point?

300

If no more sugar can be dissolved into a solvent it is...

What is saturated?

400

How the particles in a material move if they are heated.

What is faster?

400

Two states of matter that are fluids.

What are liquid and gas?

400

Particles in this state of matter are spread apart and can move freely.

What is a gas?

400

When a liquid turns to a gas

What is evaporate?

500

The speed of particles in an ice cube.

What is slow?

500

The material into which something is dissoved.

What is a solvent?

500

The temperature at which a liquid turns to a gas

What is the boiling point?

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