Matter Vocabulary
The amount of matter in an object.
What is Mass?
How much space an object takes up
What is volume?
This results in a new substance and is permanently changed.
What is Chemical change?
Materials that can be easily separated and keep their own properties
What is Mixture?
Subatomic particles that have a negative charge
What are electrons?
A change in the size, shape, or state of matter, that does not change the matter's identity.
What is physical change?
This physical property is size-dependent and should not be used to help identify an unknown substance.
What is mass? (or Volume)
When ice cream melts in your bowl, it is this kind of change.
What is a physical change?
Matter that is made of only one kind of atom is
What is an element?
The mass of an atom comes from these two subatomic particles, found in the nucleus.
What are protons and neutrons?
The smallest part of an element that still has the properties of the element
What is an Atom?
A beach ball floats in water and a baseball sinks, this means that this item has the higher density.
What is the baseball?
Solubility is an example of this type of property.
What is a physical property?
Methane is a colorless, odorless gas with the chemical formula CH4, this makes Methane this type of matter.
What is a compound?
The atomic number is also the number of
What are Protons?
The measure of the mass of a material in a given volume
What is Density?
Jane mixes 5.0 grams of sugar into a beaker of water. then she adds 10.0 grams of food coloring into the beaker. If the total mass for the new mixture is 130.0 grams, what is the mass of the water?
What is 115.0 grams?
When two students mixed two substances together in a beaker, bubbles where produced and the substanced changed color. This most likely means that this type of changed occured.
What is a chemical change?
Bronze is created by melting copper and tin together. Bronze is this type of matter.
What is a homogeneous mixture? (Just Mixture will be accepted)
The element Chlorine has an atomic number of 17, in a neutral atom it would have this many electrons.
What is 17?
A solid that sometimes forms when two liquids combine chemcially
What is a percipitate?
Use this method, you can find the volume of an irregular shaped object.
What is the displacement method?
When two substances that have been mixed together are seperated by their boiling points it this kind of change.
What is a physical change?
Here is Mrs. Jensen to help provide the answer.
What is an element?
Magnesium has an atomic mass of 24 and contains 12 protons, this means it has this many neutrons.
What is 12?