Matter and Chemistry Flashcard

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How may a compound be represented?

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By a chemical formula.

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What are the building blocks of matter from which all elements are made?

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Atoms.

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What is the study of matter and how matter changes?

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Chemistry.

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What are pure substances with specific properties that cannot be broken down by physical or chemical means?

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Elements.

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What is the process in which substances are changed into different substances?

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Chemical change.

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What is a substance made of two or more elements that are chemically combined?

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Compound.

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What is a combination of two or more substances that are not chemically combined?

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Mixture.

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What is the smallest unit of an element that retains the properties of that element?

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Atom.

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What is a substance that consists of only one type of atom?

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Element.

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What is the change in which the form or appearance of a substance changes, but its composition remains the same?

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Physical change.