Vocabulary
What you observe or measure about something that helps identify or describe it. Examples are color, shape, texture
Properties
This is what you have when molecules are all the same type.
A substances
What determines the properties of a substance?
The properties of the molecules
This part of the chromatography experiment is the solvent.
The water
A group of atoms joined together in a particular way. Hint: They have the same properties.
A molecule
What form of matter is when molecules are tightly packed together.
A solid
This property describes how a substance feels, like smooth, rough, or sticky.
texture
This has a fixed shape and fixed volume. The molecules of this state of matter are tightly packed together.
A solid
Matter that is made of more than one substance.
A mixture
A tiny piece of matter that is too small to see. They join together to form a molecule.
An atom
These are characteristics you can observe about a substance, like color, smell, or hardness.
Properties
The food dye represented what in the chromatography experiment?
The test mixture
Anything that has mass and takes up space.
Matter
A bowl of cookie dough is an example of this.
A mixture
This property describes if a substance dissolves in water, like sugar does.
Solubility
In this, the molecules are freely moving but take the shape of the container.
A liquid
To use any of the 5 senses to gather information about something.
To observe
What is made up of the same types of molecules?
A substance
Using only a high powered microscope, a person could observe the shape, weight and size properties. What are they observing?
The properties of a molecule
To pull on an object, even without touching it. This what some molecules can do to another molecule.
Attract