Pure or Not
It's So Square
What's Inside
Physical or Chemical?
Change Me
100

What is a mixture?

A mixture is 2 or more substances which are put together and do not chemically combine.

100

How is the periodic table arranged today?

By increasing atomic number.

100

What is the center of the atom called?

The nucleus.

100

This property just describes the atom.

Physical Property

100

Solid --> Liquid

Melting

200

What is the basic building block of matter?

The atom.

200

Give me 2 names for columns on the periodic table.

Groups or families.

200

Name the 2 subatomic particles found in the nucleus of the atom.

The protons and the neutrons.
200

Solubility.

Physical, when something dissolves you can boil it to get the solid back.

200

Gas --> Liquid

Condensation

300

Name the 2 types of mixtures.

Homogeneous and heterogeneous.

300

Why don't some of the element's abbreviations match their names? For example Ag = Silver

They are named in the original language they were discovered.

300

Where is the electron found?

Outside the nucleus in an electron cloud.

300

Phase Change

Physical, it can be reversed.

300

3 Names for a liquid going to a gas.

Vaporization, evaporation, boiling.

400

Name the 2 types of pure substances.

Elements and compounds.

400

Define atomic number.

The number of protons in the nucleus of the atom.

400

Name the charges of the 3 subatomic particles.

Proton - positive

Electron - negative

Neutron - neutral

400

Flammability

Chemical, turns into something new.

400

What happens to temperature and state during a phase change?

Temperature stays the same while the state of matter is changing.

500

How is an element different from a compound?

An element is only made of 1 type of atom and a compound is 2 or more elements chemically combined.

500

What is the main similarity for elements in the same column?

The number of valence electrons.

500

Sequence the subatomic particles from largest to smallest.

Neutron, proton, electron.

500

What do you call a property that stays the same regardless of the size of the sample.

Characteristic Property

500

A solid straight to a gas.

Sublimation