Properties of Matter
This property describes the space an object takes up.
Volume
The state of matter of the air.
Gas
The center of an atom.
Nucleus
Folding a paper in half is this type of change.
Physical
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
Matter
Density is related to these two physical properties.
Mass and Volume
This state of matter has the least kinetic energy.
Solid
The positively charged subatomic particle.
Proton
Burning a log is this type of change.
Chemical
Change of matter that produces new substances.
Chemical Change
An avocado turning brown is an example of this chemical property.
Reactivity with oxygen.
The state of matter of a lightning strike.
Plasma
The subatomic particle found in the energy shells of atoms.
Electrons
The law where the mass of the reactants = the mass of the products.
Law of Conservation of Mass
A scientific explanation of the behaviour of matter based on all matter being made of particles that possess kinetic energy.
Kinetic Molecular Theory (KMT)
This physical property describes the shininess of a substance.
Lustre
The phase change of a gas to a solid.
Deposition
The elementary particles that make up protons and neutrons.
Quarks
Food decomposing is this type of change.
Chemical
When heating a material causes it to expand.
Thermal Expansion
This lab technique can be used to separate a mixture of ink in a pen.
Paper Chromatography
The spreading of one material through another (food colouring in water).
Diffusion
The scientist who created the plum pudding model of the atom.
JJ Thomson
Describes a solid being created during a chemical change.
Precipitate Formation
Characteristic of matter that can be observed or measured without changing its chemical identity.
Physical Property