Matter Vocabulary
Conservation of Matter
Physical Properties of Matter Vocabulary
Identifying Minerals
Chemical Change Clues
100
Matter
What is anything that takes up space?
100
A prediction or "educated guess" of how you think an experiment will turn out?
What is a hypothesis?
100
Whether a substance dissolves in water.
What is solubility?
100
The ability of a mineral to be scratched with glass. Bonus: If it scratches, its ___________ is _______ than 5. If it doesn't scratch, its ____________ is ________ than 5.
What is hardness? Bonus: If it scratches, its hardness is less than 5. If it does NOT scratch, its hardness is greater than 5.
100
Bubbles appear when one substance is mixed with another substance (for example, when antacid is dropped in water)
What is when gas appears?
200
Tiny particles that make up matter and behave differently depending on pressure and temperature.
What is an atom?
200
A section in your lab report where you record the information that you gather after you complete each trial. Two sections.
What is a data table and data graph?
200
How soft or hard matter is. We determine this by scratching a mineral with glass.
What is hardness?
200
How the surface of the mineral reflects light.
What is luster?
200
When something changes color (example: when leaves change in autumn)
What is a color change?
300
Particles that move around freely, have have fixed volume, but takes the shape of the container.
What is a liquid?
300
Conservation of Matter # 1 and 2: The mass of an ice cube as a SOLID is _____________ to the mass of a MELTED ice cube.
What is equal?
300
The ability of matter to allow heat to pass through.
What is thermal conductivity?
300
When you scrape a mineral on a white surface, the ________ is the color of the mark it leaves.
What is streak?
300
When energy is released (example: as light in fireworks).
What is light or heat appears?
400
Particles that move faster and are far apart, do NOT have a fixed volume, AND is capable of expanding.
What is a gas?
400
Conservation of Matter #1 and 2: Even though a PHYSICAL CHANGE (melted) happened, the _________________ of the matter did NOT ___________. Two words.
What is Mass? and What is Change?
400
The ability of matter to allow electricity to pass through.
What is electrical conductivity?
400
Sample A: glassy, white, less than 5, white streak.
What is Calcite?
400
When wood is burned and it turns into ash.
What is it can't usually be reversed?
500
Particles that do NOT move around AND have a DEFINITE shape and DEFINITE volume.
What is a solid?
500
Conservation of Matter # 1 - 3: Total WEIGHT of matter does NOT change regardless of the type of change that occurs when Heating, Cooling, or Mixing Substances. We can say that the "total weight of the matter is ___________________."
What is CONSERVED?
500
The ability of matter to attract to a magnet
What is magnetism?
500
Sample B: glassy, purple or green, less than 5, white streak
What is Flourite?
500
When something smells spoiled (example: a rotten egg)
What is an odor change?