Science Vocab Unit 3 Inspire Science

anything that has mass and takes up space

• Atom

• Substance

• Matter

• Molecule

Atom

• anything that has mass and takes up space

• The building blocks of matter

•  a form of matter that has a uniform composition

• Element

 a form of matter that has a uniform composition

• Substance

• Element

• Molecule

• Compound

Element

• Made of only one type of atom

• two or more DIFFERENT atoms chemically combined

• two or more DIFFERENT atoms chemically combined

• the building blocks of matter 

two or more atoms chemically combined

• Molecule

• Mixture

• Nucleus

• Atom

Compound

• two or more atoms chemically combined

• two substances physically combined but not bonded chemically

• anything that has mass and takes up space

• two or more DIFFERENT atoms chemically combined

two substances physically combined but not bonded chemically

• Electron

• Atomic number

• Mixture

• Periodic table

Nucleus

• a positive particle in an atom’s nucleus 

• the center of the atom that contains protons and neutrons

• the number of protons in an atom

• table of elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number

Proton

• a positive particle in an atom’s nucleus 

• the area outside of the atom’s nucleus where electrons are found

• a table of elements arranged in order of increasing atomic number 

• an atom with a charge due to the gain or loss of electrons 

a neutral particle in an atom’s nucleus

• Electron

• Neutron

• Proton

• Atomic number