Vocabulary 1
The amount of space that matter takes up
What is volume?
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?
An element that has properties such as shine, conductivity, and flexibility
What is a metal?
The nucleus of an atom is made up of these two particles.
What are protons and neutrons?
Luster, conductivity, and flexibility are used to describe: metals, nonmetals, or metalloids?
Metals
Anything that has mass and volume
What is matter?
Two or more atoms that are joined into one particle.
What is a molecule?
A poor conductor of electricity. Not easy to bend and will break or crumble
What is a nonmetal?
A pan balance is used to measure this
What is mass
This particle of an atom has a negative electrical charge.
What is a an electron?
The property of water that helps certain objects float
What is surface tension?
In the nucleus of an atom, a particle that has no electrical charge
What is a neutron?
A property of metals that allows people to make copper into thin wires
What is ductility?
The most common elements in the universe are
What are hydrogen and helium?
Helium is this kind of an element.
What is a noble gas?
The amount of mass for each milliliter of a substance
What is density?
The particle in an atom that has a negative charge
What is an electon?
The property that lets you bend, flatten, or hammer something without it breaking
What is malleability?
This property causes water to form droplets
What is surface tension?
Silicon is an example of this kind of an element.
What is a metallid?
An object’s resistance to sinking
What is buoyancy?
This is a material that cannot be broken down into anything simpler by chemical reactions
What is an element
This is how strongly gravity pulls on an object
Weight
This state of matter expands to fill its container.
What is a gas?
The most common elements in Earth's atmosphere.
What are nitrogen and oxygen?