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Vocab 2
Changing States
Mixed Review
Matter Characteristics
100
A measure of the amount of matter in a substance (measured in grams).
What is mass?
100
A star that is the main source of energy on earth.
What is the sun?
100
The bouncing of heat or light off an object.
What is reflection?
100
When a solid changes to a liquid.
What is melting?
100
Because the sunlight reflects off the moon and back to Earth...
Why we can see the moon?
200
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
What is matter?
200
Something that takes in reflected light.
What is a receiver?
200
When a liquid turns to a solid.
What is freezing?
200
These atoms are not packed super tight. Atoms are able to slide past one another.
What are liquids?
200
These types of matter have a definite volume.
What are a solid and liquid?
300
The amount of space matter takes up or how much something can hold.
What is volume?
300
A type of energy that allows us to see objects.
What is light energy?
300
When a liquid turns into a gas.
What is evaporation?
300
Atoms in this type of matter flow freely everywhere.
What are gases?
300
This types of matter has a definite shape.
What are solids?
400
A measure of how tightly packed an object's atoms are and shows the relationship between mass and volume.
What is density?
400
The presence of heat.
What is thermal energy?
400
When a gas cools and turns into a liquid.
What is condensation?
400
The mass remains constant when this happens.
When water changes states between solid, liquid, and gas in a closed container?
400
This type of matter takes the shape of its container.
What are liquids?
500
The smallest particle that makes up all matter.
What is an atom?
500
Made of 2 or more atoms joined together.
What is a molecule?
500
When a solid turns directly into a gas without turning into a liquid first (dry ice).
What is sublimation?
500
We are able to see images because of this.
What is the process of light bouncing off (reflecting) off an object and back into our eye (the receiver).
500
Atoms are packed together tightly in this type of matter.
What are solids?