Describing and Classifying Matter Vocabulary

What is matter?

• Substance made of atoms

• Anything that has mass and takes up space

• Everything around you

• All of the other answers are correct

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NGSS.5-PS1-1

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What is a substance?

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

• A mixture of different kinds of atoms

• A single kind of matter that constantly changes its makeup

• An unidentified and unfamiliar chemical compound

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What are physical properties?

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

• Changes that create new substances

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

• Iron rusting and methane burning

What is solubility?

• A chemical property of matter

• The ability to become a completely different substance

• Water reacts with carbon dioxide to make carbonic acid

• Describes how easily a substance dissolves in another substance

What are chemical properties?

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

• Changes that don't create new substances

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

• Chopping wood and dissolving salt in water

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What is an atom?

• The basic unit from which all matter is made

• A combination of different elements

• Carbon dioxide

• Substance made of gold, oxygen and carbon

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What are elements in science?

• Substances made of more than one type of atom

• Air, water, fire and earth

• Substances made of only one type of atom

• Like a bank, only better

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What is a molecule?

• Group of atoms mixed together

• Group of atoms held together by chemical bonds

• Group of the same atoms

• Group of different atoms

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What is a compound?

• Group of different atoms mixed together

• Group of atoms held together by chemical bonds

• Group of the same atoms mixed together

• Group of different atoms held together by chemical bonds

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

What is a mixture?

• Two or more substances that are chemically combined

• Sodium chloride and carbon dioxide

• A group of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds

• Two or more substances that are together in the same place, but atoms are not chemically bonded