Applied Science Study Guide 2.1

The study of matter and how it changes.

• Compound

• Chemistry

• Pure Substance

• Chemical Formula

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

• Matter

• Miscible

• Heterogeneous

• Compound

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

A substance that cannot be broken down into simpler substances.

• Mixture

• Homogeneous

• Matter

• Element

The smallest particle that has properties of an element.

• Pure substance

• matter

• compound

• Atom

A substance made of atoms of more than one element bound together.

• Molecule

• compound

• Element

• atom

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The smallest unit of a substance that exhibits all of the properties characteristic of that substance.

• atom

• molecule

• matter

• chemistry

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

The chemical symbols and numbers indicating the atoms contained in the basic unit of a substance.

• Chemical Formula

• Pure Substance

• Homogeneous

• Immiscible

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

Any matter that has a fixed composition and definite properties.

• Heterogeneous

• Molecule

• Pure Substance

• Chemical Formula

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

A combination of more than one pure substance.

• Chemical Formula

• Mixture

• Compound

• Matter

Mixture of this type have substances that are not uniformly mixed.

• Homogeneous

• Heterogeneous

• compound

• Mixture