Vocabulary Page One
A measure of the size of a body or region in three-dimensional space
What is volume?
Properties that are most useful in identifying a substance
What is a characteristic property?
Cutting a cake
What is a physical change?
Name one physical property
What is magnetism, ability to conduct electric current, strength, flexibility, color, odor, thermal conductivity, state, density, solubility, ductility, malleability, or volume?
Name one chemical property.
What is reactivity (with Oxygen) or flammability?
The ability of two or more substances to combine and form one or more new substances
What is reactivity?
A characteristic of a substance that does not involve a chemical change, such as density, color, or hardness
What is a physical property?
Eating and digesting lunch
What is a chemical change?
This is where the most dense layer of a liquid lies.
What is the bottom layer?
This is what happens to molecules as you significantly increase the temperature of a substance.
What is they move apart quickly?
The tendency of an object to resist being moved or, if the objet is moving, to resist a change in speed or direction until an outside force acts on the object
What is inertia?
A property of matter that describes a substance’s ability to participate in chemical reactions
What is a chemical property?
Rusting iron
What is a chemical change?
Describe an experiment where a physical property is useful.
What is comparing different rocks or metals?
Name the other chemical property not yet named.
What is reactivity (with Oxygen) or flammability?
The curve at a liquid’s surface by which one measures the volume of the liquid
What is a meniscus?
The difference between chemical and physical changes
What is chemical changes actually changes the substance whereas physical changes change the look of the substance but not the actual substance
Getting a haircut
What is a physical change?
Name three physical properties not already named.
What is magnetism, ability to conduct electric current, strength, flexibility, color, odor, thermal conductivity, state, density, solubility, ductility, malleability, or volume?
Describe the chemical properties of the Coke and Mentos experiment.
What is the Coke and Mentos each contain sugar and particles that are reactive with each other? What is the amount of energy between these two reactants is too much to be contained thus creating a fountain?
Describe the difference between mass and weight
What is mass? The amount of matter in an object (does not change no matter where you are)
What is weight? The gravitational force on an object (can change depending on where you are, i.e. the moon vs. Earth)
Name at least one chemical property and one physical property.
What is
Name one physical change and one chemical change not stated so far in this game.
What is???
Define physical properties.
What is a characteristic of a substance that does not involve a chemical change, such as density, color, or hardness?
Define chemical properties.
What is a property of matter that describes a substance’s ability to participate in chemical reactions?