Matter and Energy
Changes of State
Fluids
Behavior of Gases
Vocabulary
100

According to this theory, matter is made up of atoms and molecules

What is the kinetic theory of matter?

100

The process of a solid changing directly into a gas

What is sublimation?

100

A common type of pressure measured in hospitals

What is blood pressure?

100
Describes how the behavior of gases is affected by pressure, volume, and temperature

What are gas laws?

100

A nonsolid state of matter in which the atoms or molecules are free to move past each other, as in a gas or liquid

What is a fluid?

200

The fourth, most common state of matter

What is plasma?

200

Changes of state all require this

What is energy?

200

The principle used to find buoyant force

What is Archimedes' Principle?

200

The relationship between the volume and pressure of a gas

What is Boyle's Law?

200

In physical science, a state of matter that consists of free-moving ions and electrons; a plasma’s properties differ from the properties of a solid, liquid, or gas

What is plasma?

300

The state of matter where the particles are farthest apart

What is a gas?

300

The change of state from a gas to a liquid

What is condensation?

300

All fluids exert this on matter

What is a buoyant force?

300

When pressure increases, this decreases

What is volume?

300

The change of state from a liquid to a gas

What is evaporation?

400

Kinetic energy is also a measure of this

What is temperature?

400

The law of conservation of mass states that this cannot be created or destroyed

What is mass?

400

This determines whether an object will float or sink

What is density?

400

The law relating gas pressure to temperature.

What is Gay-Lussac's Law?

400

The amount of force exerted per unit area of a surface

What is pressure?

500

The total kinetic energy of the particles that make up a substance

What is thermal energy?

500

The law of conservation of energy states that this cannot be created or destroyed

What is energy?

500

A principle that hydraulic devices are based on

What is Pascal's Principle?

500

This and pressure increase at the same time in a gas

What is temperature?

500

A liquid's resistance to flow

What is viscosity?