Key Concepts
This law states that "Matter can neither be created nor destroyed."
What is the Law of Conservation of Matter?
a system where matter cannot enter or leave.
What is a closed system?
the capacity to be easily set on fire
What is flammable / flammability?
"That which has mass and takes up space." // An athlete that stands at home plate and swings at a baseball.
What is Matter Batter?
These are things about a substance that can be used to help identify it. Such as color, texture, and state of matter at room temperature.
What are properties?
This is the variable the "I", the scientists, change during an experiment.
What is the independent variable?
Viridian, Fushia, and Cinnabar are type of these, which indicate the average wavelength of light the reflect off of an object.
What is color?
When you plot the independent and dependent variable on a coordinate plane you make this // Newborn babies from this African species can be the same height as Mr. Chepulis.
What is Graph Giraffe?
The three key parts to writing a scientific argument? (Hint: CER)
What are Claim, Evidence, Reasoning?
State of matter that a definite shape and volume.
What is solid?
Indicates whether something is a solid, liquid, or gas at 77 degrees farenheit or 20 degrees Celsius.
What is State of Matter at Room Temperature?
Evidence of a reaction of a liquid and a solid forming gas may include this // To twice the amount of something
A triple beam balance is used to find this, measured in grams.
What is the mass?
This is a characteristic of a substance that doesn’t change
What is a property?
the amount of matter in a volume of a substance or object, often measured in grams per milliliter or kilograms per cubic meter
What is density?
A measure of the amount of matter in an object // The substance that beakers and graduated cylinders are made from.
What is Mass Glass?
What is Density = grams/mL?
Something that is made of one type of material throughout.
What is a substance?
Describes a material that can dissolve in a particular substance
What is soluble?
The proper way to smell something in the laboratory // A description of texture that may be used to describe wool, cotton, or silk.
What is Waft Soft?