Vocabulary on Matter

A system to measure that is based on units of 10.

• Customary system

• Metric system

• Dewey decimal system

The force that measures the pull on a given mass by gravity.

• Mass

• Density

• Weight

• Volume

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

A process that changes the appearance of a substance, but not its characteristics.

• Chemical change

• Cutting

• Intensive property

• Physical change

The amount of a substance that dissolves in a given quantity of solvent at specified conditions

• Solvent

• Solute

• Solubility

• Solution

A process in which a substance goes through a change in make-up and become a new substance.

• Physical change

• Bubbling

• Color change

• Chemical change

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

This happens when mass is divided by volume

• Density

• Weight

• Solvent

The smallest unit of an element that maintains the chemical properties of that element

• Molecule

• Atom

• Particle

• Proton

Smallest unit of matter that can exist by itself and retain all of the substance's chemical properties.

• Proton

• Atom

• Molecule

• Ion

A form of matter that does not have a definite volume or shape.

• Liquid

• Solid

• Plasma

• Gas

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The change of state in which a liquid becomes a solid as energy and heat is removed

• Melting

• Freezing

• Boiling

• Evaporation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4