Topic 1 Lesson 1 vocabulary

characteristics that describe something’s ability to become something else

• Physical properties

• Chemical properties

• Matter

• Molecule

basic unit from which all matter is made

• element

• molecule

• substance

• atom

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

a single kind of matter that always has a specific makeup

• substance

• element

• atom

• molecule

anything that has mass and takes up space

• physical property

• chemical property

• mass

• atom

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NGSS.MS-PS1-5

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

• molecule

• element

• physical property

• mixture

substances that are made up of only one type of atom

• element

• atom

• compound

• mixture

a group of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds

• atoms

• substance

• molecule

• mixture

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NGSS.MS-PS1-1

substance made up of two or more elements that are chemically combined in a set ratio

• matter

• compound

• substance

• molecule

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

• mixture

• matter

• substance

• element