Elements, Mixtures and compounds
Chemical Reactions
Law of Conservation of Matter
Random Chem Facts/Vocab
100

The smallest unit of matter which has properties of a chemical element.

What is an atom?

100

These are the ingredients of a reaction; they are on the left side of the arrow.

What are reactants?

100

List at least 3 indicators of a chemical change.

What are color change, gas is produced (smell or bubbles or fizz), a solid is formed, bright light or temperature change, etc.

100

The study of matter and how it changes is called

What is chemistry?

200

NaCl is an example of this class of compounds.

What is a salt or ionic compound?

200

A process that involves the rearrangement of atoms to form new substances.

What is a chemical reaction?

200

The number placed below after a symbol in a chemical reaction is called

What is a subscript?

200

The number found in front of a Compounds is called.

Coefficient

300

Hydrogen and Neon are examples of what state of matter at room temperature.

What is a gas?

300

The symbolic representation of a chemical reaction using symbols and chemical formulas.

What is a chemical equation?

300

Matter can neither be _____________ nor ______________.

What is created, destroyed OR made, lost.

300

The smallest unit of a compound is called

What is a molecule?

400

Soil and air are examples of what type of material.

What are mixtures?

400

This kind of reaction absorbs energy. (Heat enters.)

What is endothermic?

400

In a ____________ system, all the matter stays inside.

What is closed?

400

These cannot be broken down into simpler substances; everything around us is made up of combinations of them.

What are elements or atoms?

500

How could you isolate salt from sea water?

What is heat it, boil it or let it evaporate. (Any one of these are correct!)

500

Every chemical reaction involves a change in

What is bonds, energy, etc.?

500

The amount of matter stays the same in the reactants and products for ____________ chemical reactions.

What is all or every.

500

Anything that has mass and takes up space is a kind of

What is matter?