Properties of Matter Vocabulary

characteristics or features of a substance

• matter

• physical property

• solubility

• mass

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

anything that has mass and takes up space

• matter

• solubility

• density

• volume

Tags

NGSS.5-PS1-1

to dissolve or evenly combine with another substance, to become part of a solution SOL family.

• phase change

• solubility

• magnetism

• matter

sink or float -the measure of how closely packed matter is in an object

• solid

• liquid

• magnetism

• density

the property of being attracted to a magnet - iron and steel have this property

• mass

• density

• magnetism

• volume

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-3

Solid, liquid, gas

• state of matter/phase of matter

• magnetism

• density

• volume

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

a change from one state of matter to another when heat is added or taken away

• conductor

• insulator

• phase change

• weight

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The phase of matter that has a definite shape and definite volume

• gas

• solid

• liquid

• solubility

The phase of matter that has a definite volume, but not a definite shape, it takes the shape of its container

• conductor

• solid

• liquid

• insulator

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

A phase of matter that does not have a definite shape or volume

• solid

• density

• insulator

• gas