Matter Vocabulary
The smallest particle of an element that is still that element.
What is an atom?
The particles are tightly packed together.
What is a solid?
Liquid to gas
What is evaporation?
Clothes drying up under the heat of the sun
What is evaporation?
Gases have no definite _____ and _____.
What are shape and volume?
Made up of the same type of atom all the way through.
What is an element?
The particles slide past each other.
What is a liquid?
Solid to liquid
What is melting?
Water solidifies when put inside the freezer
What is freezing?
Gases move _____ and freely in all directions.
What is rapidly?
A characteristic of a substance or element that is always true.
What is a property?
The particles tend to move as far apart as possible.
What is a gas?
Gas to liquid
What is condensation?
Polar ice caps turning to liquid due to effects of global warming
What is melting?
Gases _____ readily with other gases due to their particles.
What is mix?
A particle made up of more than one atom.
What is a molecule?
It is an electrified gas.
What is a plasma?
Gas to solid
What is deposition?
Smoke coming out of dry ice
What is sublimation?
Gas particles move faster and farther when heated and fill the container completely.
What is gas expansion?
Something that is made up of either one type of atom or one type of molecule all the way through.
What is a substance?
This is what you see in between gas particles.
What is empty space?
Solid to gas
What is sublimation?
Clouds beginning to form into rain
What is condensation?
Gas particles move slower and closer together when cooled.
What is gas contraction?