Mixtures and Pure Substances Vocabulary Review

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Heterogeneous Mixture

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A mixture where you can see the different parts because they are not evenly mixed (like a salad).

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Homogeneous Mixture

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A mixture that looks the same throughout because the parts are evenly mixed (like salt water).

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Mixture

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Two or more substances combined together but not chemically joined.

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Physical Property

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A characteristic of matter that can be observed or measured without changing what the substance is (like color, mass, or melting point).

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Pure Substance

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A material made of only one kind of particle with a fixed composition (like gold or water).

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Solution

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A special type of homogeneous mixture where one substance dissolves into another (like sugar in tea).

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Atom

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The smallest unit of an element that still has that element’s properties.

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Molecule

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Two or more atoms bonded together.

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State of Matter

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The form matter takes (solid, liquid, gas, or plasma) based on how its particles move and are arranged.

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Scale

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The size or level at which something is measured or observed (like microscopic vs. macroscopic).