Matter Vocabulary

The smallest unit of an element that retains the properties

• solid

• atom

• gas

• compound

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

The amount of matter in an object

• Mass

• Molecule

• Gas

• Compound

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

This state of matter has a definite shape and definite volume

• Gas

• Solid

• Liquid

The state of matter in which particles slide past one another

• Gas

• Liquid

• Solid

Particles that vibrate in place are known as a ______.

• Solid

• Liquid

• Gas

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Properties of matter than can be observed, measured, or changed without changing the matter itself

• solution

• conductor

• physical properties

• relative density

A combination of two or more substances that can be easily separated in some physical way

• mixture

• solution

• liquid

• mass

A state of matter in which the substance expands to take both the shape and the volume of its container

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• mass

Definite shape and size

• solid

• liquid

• gas

• relative density

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The amount of matter in something

• liquid

• dissolving

• mass

• dissolving

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-1

NGSS.MS-PS1-5