Matter & Its Changes Vocabulary

Any characteristic of a material that can be observed or measured without changing the material.

• Physical Change

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

• Chemical Change

Change in which the properties of a substance change, but the identity of the substance remains the same.

• Physical Change

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

• Chemical Change

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Characteristic that gives a substance the ability to undergo a change that results in a new substance.

• Physical Change

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

• Chemical Change

A change in the identity of a substance due to the chemical properties in that substance.

• Physical Change

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

• Chemical Change

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

States that the mass of the products of a chemical change is always the same as the mass of what you started with.

• Law of Conservation of Matter

• Law of Conservation of Mass

• Density

• Chemical Property

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

• Matter

• Density

• States of Matter

• Boiling Point

Measureable physical property that can be found by dividing the mass of an object by its volume.

• Matter

• Density

• States of Matter

• Boiling Point

Solid, Liquid, Gas, Plasma

• Law of Conservation of Matter

• Law of Conservation of Mass

• States of Matter

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid.

• Melting Point

• Boiling Point

• Malleable

• Ductile

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The temperature at which a liquid becomes a gas.

• Melting Point

• Boiling Point

• Malleable

• Ductile

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4