States of Matter
A state of matter that has a definite shape and volume.
What is a solid?
Has a positive charge and is located in the nucleus.
What is a proton?
A characteristic of a pure substance that can be observed without changing into another substance.
What is a physical property?
A push or pull.
What is a force?
The ability to do work and cause change.
What is energy?
A state of matter that has no definite shape but has a definite volume.
What is a liquid?
Has a negative charge and is located in the nucleus.
What is an electron?
A characteristic of a pure substance that describes its ability to change into a different substance.
What is a chemical property?
The tendency of an object to resists change.
What is inertia?
Total potential and kinetic energy in an object.
What is thermal energy?
A state of matter with no definite shape of volume.
What is a gas?
Has a neutral or no charge and is located in the nucleus.
What is a neutron?
One or more substances combine or break apart to form a new substance.
What is a chemical change?
This depends on the object's mass and on the net force acting on the object.
What is acceleration?
An object has energy based on movement.
What is kinetic energy?
The change in state from solid to liquid.
What is melting?
The basic particle from which all elements are made.
What is an atom?
What is a physical change?
For every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.
What is Newton's Third Law?
Energy that is stored.
What is potential energy?
Vaporization only takes places on the surface of a liquid.
What is evaporation?
The center region of an atom.
What is the nucleus?
This can be described in two kinds of properties.
What is matter?
What are two factors that affect gravity?
What is mass and distance?
Average energy of motion of particles.
What is temperature?