Matter Vocabulary

Law that says mass can never be created or destroyed, but it can be transformed.

• atomic theory

• Law of Conservation of Mass

• Newton's 3rd Law

• Chemical Properties

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

A characteristic of a substance that can be observed or measured without changing the identity of the substance. (Use your senses to observe).

• Chemical Change

• Chemical Property

• Physical change

• Physical Property

A type of change in which a new substance is NOT formed.

• Physical Change

• Chemical Change

• Physical Property

• Chemical Property

The ability of a substance to react to form new substances.

• Chemical Change

• Physical Change

• Chemical Property

• Physical Property

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

A change in matter that produces one or more new substances.

• Chemical Change

• Chemical Property

• Physical Property

• Physical Change

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NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-5

Change in state of matter from liquid to gas.  This occurs throughout the entire liquid (includes boiling and evaporation).

• Boiling

• Sublimation

• Condensation

• Vaporization

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Change in state from a gas to a liquid.

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Sublimation

Part of vaporization that occurs at the surface (liquid changes to gas). 

• Evaporation

• Condensation

• Precipitation

• Sublimation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Change in state directly from a solid to a gas. (example: dry ice)

• Melting

• Boiling

• Freezing

• Sublimation

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The ability of a substance (solute) to form a solution with another substance (solvent).

• Solubility

• Solution

• Sus

• Solvent