the scientific study of the properties of matter and how matter changes
What is Chemistry?
100
a characteristic of a substance that can be observed without changing the substance into something else
What is a Physical Property?
100
an element that has some of the characteristics of metals and some of the characteristics of nonmetals; between the metals and nonmetals on the Periodic Table
What is a Metalloid?
200
a physical property of a substance; the pigment of a substance
What is color?
200
a term used to describe a substance that can be pounded or rolled into shape
What is Malleability?
200
an element that lacks most of the properties of metals
What is a Nonmetal?
300
a characteristic that is observed when a substance interacts with another substance
What is a Chemical Property?
300
a term used to describe how hard or soft a substance
What is Hardness?
300
an element of the Periodic Table to the left of the zig-zag line that is based on physical properties such as hardness, shininess, malleability, and ductility
What is a metal?
400
the transfer of thermal energy through direct contact between particles of matter
What is Conductivity?
400
a term used to describe the way a mineral reflects light from its surface
What is Luster?
400
a combination of two or more atoms that are bonded together
What is a molecule?
500
a change in a substance that produces a new substance
What is Chemical Change?
500
the measurement of how much mass is contained in a given volume of a substance
What is Density?
500
a substance made of two or more elements chemically combined in a set ratio