Physical Properties Vocab

A substance or object that allows energy to flow through it easily

• Gas

• Electrical Energy

• Conductor

• Mixture

the process by which substances break down into small pieces and spread evenly throughout a liquid

• Physical Properties

• States of matter

• Dissolving

• Mixture

Energy that is absorbed or delivered by an electric circuit

• Relative Density

• Electrical Energy

• Thermal Energy

• Solubility

A state of matter in which the substance expands to take both the shape and the volume of its container

• Solid

• Gas

• Liquid

• Solution

A substance or object that does not allow energy to flow through it easily

• Insulator

• Solubility

• Mixture

• Matter

Take the shape of their container, filling the bottom of the container first; has the ability to flow

• Liquid

• Solid

• Gas

• Matter

A force of attraction that causes a magnetic material to move

• Magnetism

• Physical Properties

• Thermal Enegy

• Melting point

Mass

• the amount of matter in something

• the gravitational pull on an object

• a state of matter with definite shape and size

• anything that has mass and takes up spaces

Matter

• the ability of a substance to dissolve in another substance

• a combination of two or more substances that can be easily separated in some physical way

• anything that has mass and takes up space

• depends on gravity

Melting/ Freezing Point

• the temperature at which a substance changes from a liquid to a solid or a solid to a liquid by the loss or addition of heat

• energy related to the temperature of an object or a substance

• definite shape and size

• the decimal measuring system based on the meter, liter, and gram as units of length, volume, and wright or mass