7th T1L1 Matter Vocabulary

Separating liquids by boiling them.

• solubility

• distillation

• atom

• matter

How easily a substance dissolves in another substance.

• physical property

• element

• solubility

• compound

Made up of two or more substances that are together in the same place, but atoms are not chemically bonded.

You can separate the two substances out easily.

• atom

• element

• compound

• mixture

Substance made of two or more elements that are chemically bonded together.

• compound

• atom

• mixture

• phenomenon

Two or more atoms bonded tightly together.

• distillation

• matter

• molecules

• substance

Substances made up of only one type of atom.

• atom

• physical property

• element

• molecule

Basic unit from which all matter is made.

• atom

• compound

• chemical property

• molecule

Characteristics that describe the ability of a substance to become something else.

• physical property

• phenomenon

• chemical property

• substance

A characteristic that can be observed without changing the matter into another type of matter.

• substance

• atom

• physical property

• chemical property

A single kind of matter that always has a specific makeup or composition.

• substance

• atom

• compound

• element