Vocabulary
Meet the Elements
Making and Using Measurements
Matter and its Properties
Potpourri
100
The study of matter and the changes it undergoes.
What is chemistry?
100
Elements categorized into these have similar chemical properties.
What is a group/family?
100
This system of measurements was created so scientists would have a "universal language" to correspond in.
What is the SI system?
100
This state of matter has very limited atomic motion and has definite volume and shape.
What are solids?
100
This branch of Chemistry would study energy changes within matter.
What is physical chemistry?
200
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
200
These elements are categorized by having a luster, being malleable & ductile, and good conductors.
What are metals?
200
These ratios are derived from the equalities to convert from one to the other.
What are conversion factors?
200
This type of mixture has the same proportion of components throughout.
What is a homogenous mixture?
200
This element is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
What is Mercury?
300
This refers to the closeness of measurements to the correct or accepted value of the quantity measured.
What is accuracy?
300
These elements are typically gases at room temperature, are poor conductors, and are typically very brittle.
What are nonmetals?
300
The following number has "X" significant figures: 0.023
What is 2 significant figures?
300
These types of properties do not depend on the amount of matter present.
What are qualitative properties?
300
This result of the Scientific Method explains a broad body of facts and cannot be definitively proven in nature.
What is a theory?
400
This is something that has magnitude, size, or amount.
What is a quantity?
400
These group 18 elements are typically nonreactive and used in bright signage.
What are Noble Gases?
400
This is a method of writing large numbers to keep the appropriate number of significant figures.
What is Scientific Notation?
400
This type of property deals with a substances ability to undergo changes that transform it into other substances.
What are chemical properties?
400
This derived SI unit is a measurement of mass per volume.
What is density?
500
This type of compound has a fixed composition with every sample having the same properties and composition.
What is a pure substance/compound?
500
These elements form a stairway on the periodic table, are semiconductors, and are all solid at room temperature.
What are metalloids?
500
This SI prefix is equivalent to 1000 base units
What is Kilo?
500
This scientific law states that energy can never be created or destroyed.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
500
In the following problem how many significant figures should your answer have: 0.23m x 11.1m=
What is 2 significant digits/figures?