Vocabulary
Physical vs. Chemical Change
Calculating Density
States of Matter
Atoms & Elements
100

The smallest unit of an element that maintains the properties of that element.

What is an atom?

100

Dissolving salt into water is an example of what kind of change?

What is physical change?

100

The formula for calculating density is....

What is 

D = M/V

100

A rapid change from a liquid to a gas or vapor.

What is boiling?

100

This is a symbol for oxygen (O2).  What is the 2 called?

What is a subscript?

200

An __________ is made up of one or more of the same kind of atom chemically combined.

What is an element?

200

Using electricity to breakdown water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules is an example of this kind of change.

What is chemical?

200

The formula to calculate find volume given the density and mass are known is....

V = M/D

200

Name the four states of matter.

What is solid, liquid, gas and plasma?

200

True or False

Every alloy is combined with at least one metal.

What is true?

300

A substance that has definite physical and chemical properties such as appearance, melting point and reactivity.

What is pure substance?

300

Keeping in mind that we have been studying Mixtures and Pure Substances, KoolAid is a combined with many particles yet; it is not chemically combined.  KoolAid would be classified as a ____________. 

What is a mixture?

300

How is the volume of an irregular shape measured?

Submerging the object in water in a graduated cylinder.

300

In this state, particles spread apart and fill all the space available to them.

What is gas?

300

A __________ is a group of two or more atoms that are held together by chemical bonds.

What is a molecule?

400

A mixture that does not have a uniformed composition.

What is heterogenous?

400

True or False:  A pure substance is made of only one kind of matter that has definite properties.

What is True?

400

What piece of laboratory equipment would you use to identify the mass of an object?

What is a triple-beam balance.

400

The amount of the snow on the ground may decrease even if the temperature stays below the freezing point. What is the process that best explains this event?

What is condensation?

400

This was the most difficult class that Mrs. Solan took in college.  What is it?

What is Organic Chemistry?

500

The change from a solid state directly into a gas.

What is sublimation?

500

The fact that matter is not created or destroyed in any chemical or physical change is called the ________________________.

What is the Law of the Conservation of Mass?

500

From your knowledge obtained in the observational labs, which would have more density; Iron or Mercury?

What is Mercury?  Mercury is the denser of the two elements.  Iron's density is 7.874 g/cmand Mercury is 13.57 g/cm3.



500

Water is polar and oil is non-polar.  What happens when they are combined into the same container?

What is they do not mix?  

500

When testing the Ph of acids, the blue litmus paper turns to this color.

What is red?