Matter Vocabulary

Matter

• Anything that has mass and takes up space

• The amount of matter in an object

• The substance the does the dissolving

• The temperature a liquid turns to a gas

Mass

• The amount of matter in an object

• the characteristics of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the substance

• The temperature at which a liquid changes into a solid

• A heterogeneous combination of two or more substances that keep their properties.

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Volume

• The amount of space an object takes up

• The temperature at which a liquid changes into a solid

• A pure substance made of only one kind of atom

• Tell you what types of changes matter can undergo

Atom

• the characteristics of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the substance

• The amount of space an object takes up

• A pure substance made of only one kind of atom

• Smallest particle of an element

Solid

• Anything that has mass and takes up space

• The amount of space an object takes up

• A pure substance made of only one kind of atom

• A state of matter that has no definite shape but has a definite volume.

Liquid

• Anything that has mass and takes up space

• A state of matter that has no definite shape but has a definite volume.

• mass/volume

• Smallest particle of an element

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Gas

• A state of matter with no definite shape or volume

• the amount of matter in an object

• The substance that does the dissolving.

• A pure substance made of only one kind of atom

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Thermal Energy

• A state of matter with no definite shape or volume

• the characteristics of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the substance

• A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances

• Heat energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Melting point

• The temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid

• the characteristics of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the substance

• A homogeneous mixture of two or more substances

• mass/volume

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Freezing point

• The amount of substance that can be dissolved into another substance.

• The temperature at which a liquid changes into a solid

• matter cannot be created or destroyed

• Smallest particle of an element

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4