PS.5.1.1 & PS.5.1.2 Unit 1 Vocabulary: Matter & Its Interactions

This describes how matter looks, feels or interacts with other matter and can be observed or measured.

• weight

• physical property

The state of matter in which a substance maintains a rigid form without a container:

• solid

• liquid

• gas

The state of matter in which a substance takes the shape of a container

• gas

• solid

• liquid

The state of matter in which a substance expands to fill a container:

• solid

• liquid

• gas

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When two or more substances combine physically, they become a:

• solution

• mixture

When a solid is mixed into a liquid and disappears:

• dissolves

• solution

Is a mixture of one kind of matter (sugar) dissolved in another kind of matter (water). A mixture of one kind of matter that dissolves in another kind of matter and cannot be easily separated.

• solid

• solution

Anything that has mass and takes up space.

• mass

• matter

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The amount of matter in an object.

• mass

• chemical property

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Happens when a substance changes without changing the true identity of the substance (ex. water changing to ice). A change in which no new substances are formed.

• Biological change
• Physical change
• Chemical change
• Phase transition