Matter Vocab

anything that has mass and takes up space

• matter

• mass

• volume

• weight

single kind of matter with specific composition

• substance

• compound

• atom

• matter

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

• physical property

• chemical property

• physical change

• chemical change

characteristics that describe the ability to become something else

• physical property

• chemical property

• physical change

• chemical change

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

how easily a substance dissolves in another substance

• solubility

• solvent

• solute

• mass

basic unit that makes up all matter

• atom

• molecule

• compound

• element

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

substances made of only one type of atom

• element

• molecule

• compound

• solute

a group of two or more atoms held by chemical bonds

• molecule

• element

• atom

• substance

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

a substance made of two or more elements in a set ratio

• compound

• element

• atom

• mixture

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

two or more substances that are in the same place but NOT chemically bonded

• mixture

• compound

• molecule

• element