Introduction to Matter

Anything that has mass and takes up space

• mass

• substance

• matter

• atoms

A single kind of matter that has a specific makeup

• Mass

• Matter

• Element

• Substance

Characteristics of matter that can be observed without changing that matter into another type of matter

• Chemical Property

• Matter

• Physical Property

• Compound

Characteristics of matter that describe the ability of a substance to become something else, and can only be observed if the substance changes into something else

• Chemical Property

• Physical Property

• Matter

• Atoms

Describes how easily a substance can dissolve into another substance

• Distillation

• Soluability

• Chemical Reaction

• Mixture

Made of 2 or more substances that are NOT chemically bonded

• Compound

• Mixture

• Molecule

• Element

The basic unit of matter

• element

• atom

• molecule

• compound

A group of 2 or atoms held together by chemical bonds

• Chemical

• Element

• Molecule

• Compound

A group of 2 or more different atoms held together by chemical bonds.

• Molecule

• Mixture

• Compound

• Element

A substance made of only 1 kind of atom

• Element

• Mixture

• Pure substance

• Molecule