Fluids
Pure Substances
Mixtures
Potpurri
Vocabulary
100

a measure of a fluid's resistance to flow

What is viscosity?

100

any solid, liquid, or gas that only contains one type of particle throughout

What is a pure substance?

100

a type of substance that contains more than one kind of particle

What is a mixture?

100

the three states of matter

What is a solid, liquid and gas?

100

anything that has mass and takes up space

What is matter?

200

5 examples of fluids

What is water, air, helium, juice, ketchup, etc etc etc?

200

made up of elements or compounds

What is a pure substance?

200

homogenous or heterogenous

What is a mixture?

200

formula for density

What is density = mass/volume?

200

the study matter and changes in matter

What is chemistry?

300

3 (of 6) factors that affect a fluid's viscosity

What are cohesion, friction, temperature, adhesion, concentration and particle size?

300

an example of a substance that consists of one element, including it's periodic symbol

What is gold (Ag), carbon (C), sodium (Na), potassium (K)... etc

300

a mixture where the composition is not uniform, including an example

What is heterogenous? What is cookie batter, pizza, spaghetti and meatballs, etc?

300

the upward force that a fluid exerts on an object

What is buoyancy?

300

an explanation of why matter behaves the way it does

What is particle theory?

400

formula for volumetric flow rate

What is flow rate (volume) = volume of fluid passing/time?

400

an example of a substance that is a compound, including it's periodic symbol

What is H20, CO2, etc?

400

a uniform mixture of two or more pure substances, including a real life example

What is homogenous? What is salt water, iced tea, etc?

400

the universal solvent

What is water?

400

the substance that is dissolved in the solution, the substance that is dissolved in the solution

What is a solute? What is a solvent?

500

if pressure is exerted on a fluid, it will be evenly distributed throughout the fluid

What is Pascal's Law?

500

the common name for NaHCO3

What is baking soda?

500

3 ways to separate a mixture

What is sifting, evaporation, magnetism, filtration, distillation?

500

the upward, buoyant, force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid is equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the object

What is Archimedes' Principle?

500

the smallest unit that matter can be divided into

What are atoms?