Element & Periodic Table Vocab

Characteristics of matter that you can measure or detect with your senses.

Descriptions of how matter changes when it reacts with other matter.

A substance that cannot be broken down by simple means into any other substance.

The smallest particle of an element that still has the element’s chemical properties.

An abbreviation for an element’s name.

Elements that are usually shiny solids and good conductors of heat and electricity.

Elements that are often gases and are poor conductors of heat and electricity.

Elements that have some properties of metals and some properties of nonmetals.

A vertical column of elements with similar properties.

A horizontal row of elements whose properties change in predictable ways across the row.