Atoms
States of Matter
Vocabulary
Observations & Inferences
Chex Mix
100
The smallest building block of all life.
What is an atom?
100
There are 3: solids, liquids and gases
What are the states of matter?
100
Definition: The study of nature and the universe.
What is science?
100
Sight, hear, touch, taste, smell
What are the 5 senses?
100
Ms. Audia drinks from a beaker because the liquid looked tasty.
What is an unsafe lab procedure?
200
Protons, neutrons and electrons
What are the 3 parts of the atom?
200
Changing from a liquid to a solid
What is freezing?
200
Definition: A person who studies science.
What is a scientist?
200
Definition: An educated guess based on observations.
What is an inference?
200
The definition being something that is alive now or once was alive. An example of this is a duck
What is a living organism?
300
The home of the electrons located on the outside of the atom
What is the electron cloud or electron shell?
300
This happens to boiling water
What is evaporation?
300
Definition: Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
300
The type of observation that uses numbers and measurements to describe objects.
What is a quantitative observation?
300
The C abbreviation for the element Carbon is called the what?
What is the element symbol?
400
The number of protons in the atom.
What is the atomic number?
400
This state of matter has a definite volume but a flexible shape
What is a liquid?
400
Definition: The set of steps scientists use to discover new facts.
What is the scientific method?
400
This sense can be described using the words: salty, sour, sweet and spicy
What is the sense of taste?
400
When we record notes about what happened during the experiment, we are taking _____________?
What is data?
500
Location of more than 99% of the atom's mass
What is the nucleus?
500
This occurs when heat is added to a solid object.
What is melting?
500
Definition: To be able to change to fit your surroundings.
What is adapt?
500
What a scientists does when they want to find out more about something they observed.
What is research?
500
When you chemically combine two or more elements together, you create this substance. Water is an example.
What is a compound?
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