What is "matter"?
Anything that occupies space and has mass.
What is an element?
A substance made of only one type of atom (from the periodic table).
What is the difference between heterogeneous homogeneous mixtures?
Heterogeneous: constituent substances do not mix uniformly
Homogeneous: constituent substances do mix uniformly
Rows = periods
Columns = groups
Rain, snow, sleet and hail are part of what stage of the water cycle?
Which state of matter has the lowest energy particles?
Solid
What is a molecule?
Two or more atoms chemically bonded together.
Solutions
What property determines the atomic number of an element?
The number of protons in the nucleus.
Give two terms to describe the type of mixture that milk is.
Heterogeneous; colloid
What state of matter has a fixed volume but not a fixed shape?
Liquid
What is a compound?
A substance consisting of particles made of more than one type of atom.
What separation technique would you use to separate salt from water?
Evaporation or distillation
Which subatomic particle/s contain the majority of the mass of an atom?
Protons and neutrons.
A block of steel has a volume of 0.5 m3 and a mass of 4000 kg. What is its density?
Density = mass / volume = 4000/0.5
= 8000 kg/m3
What is the change of state from gas to solid?
Deposition
Atom, molecule, element, compound... Which of these words can be used to describe O2 ?
Molecule, element
What property of matter does centrifuging take advantage of to separate mixtures?
Density
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What do elements in the same group have in common?
They have the same number of electrons in their outermost (valence) shell.
State the three parts of the Particle Model of Matter
1. All matter is made of particles.
2. There is space between the particles.
3. The particles are always moving.
Are compounds pure substances or mixtures?
Pure substances
Explain the steps, in order, that you could use to separate a mixture of oil, water, sand and salt.
[Multiple answers]
What is the electron configuration of sodium (atomic number 11)
2.8.1
What is the relationship between temperature and solubility?
As temperature increases, so does solubility.