Properties of Matter
Trait or characteristic of matter that helps identify it
What is a property?
Standard metric unit for mass
What is a gram?
Number of common states of matter
What is three?
"Building block" of all matter
What is an atom?
The amount of space an object takes up
What is volume?
A property of both magnets and iron
What is magnetism?
Two units of length in the metric system
What are millimeters, centimeters, meters, kilometers?
State of matter that has definite volume and shape
What is solid?
A combination of two or more substances that are not chemically bonded
What is a mixture?
Anything that has mass and volume
What is matter?
An object with less than 1 g/ml does this on water because water has a density of 1g/ml
What is float?
System of weights and measures used in science
What is the metric system?
State of matter with the most energy
What is gas?
A substance that cannot be broken down further because it contains only one type of atom
What is an element?
This property of matter describes how a substance reacts with other substances.
What is chemical property?
Property that tells when an object moves from a liquid to a solid
What is freezing point?
Two units in the metric system commonly used to measure volume
What are milliliters and liters?
Examples of everyday types and states of matter
What are food (solid), water (liquid), and air we breathe (gas)?
Group of two or more atoms chemically bonded together and form the smallest unit of a chemical compound, such as O2 or CO2
What is a molecule?
In a mixture, the components appear blended and can be more difficult to separate.
What is a homogeneous mixture?
The measure of the pull of gravity on an object
What is weight?
Unit of measure in the metric system best used for measuring a football field
What is a meter?
State of matter where its particles move freely and slide past each other
What is a liquid?
Substances made up of two or more different types of atoms bonded together such as H2O and NaCl
What is a compound?
The amount of matter in an object
What is mass?