Terms 1
These are the three states of matter.
What are solid, liquid, gas?
This has no definite volume or shape.
What is gas?
This has definite volume and definite shape.
What is a solid?
The ability of a solvent to dissolve a certain amount of solute.
What is solubility?
This happens when atoms from two or more elements or compounds combine to form a new substance.
What is chemical change?
This measures volume of a liquid.
What is a graduated container?
This has a definite volume but not a definite shape.
What is liquid?
This is the amount of space an object or a substance takes up.
What is volume?
The process of a gas changing to a liquid.
What is condensation?
This is the molecule formed when atoms of different elements combine.
What is a compound?
This is a method of measuring the volume of irregular shaped solids.
What is water displacement?
The amount of material in a substance.
What is mass?
This is a characteristic of a substance that can be observed without changing the identify of the substance.
What is a physical property?
This is a change in matter that does not form a new substance.
What is physical change?
This is a mixture in which all the substances are spread evenly throughout.
What is a solution?
This is a scientific instrument that measures mass.
What is a balance?
This is anything that has mass and volume.
What is matter?
The process of a liquid changing into a solid.
What is freezing?
The process of a solid changing into a liquid.
What is melting?
Matter that is made up of only one kind of atom.
What is an element?
The amount of matter in a certain volume.
What is density?
This is what you call two or more substances that are physically combined.
What is a mixture?
The process of a liquid changing into a gas.
What is vaporization?
Small particles that make up all matter.
What are atoms?
A substance that is dissolved.
What is a solute?