Chapter 2 Test ⚗️ Flashcards
Anything that occupies space and has mass; a physical substance
Matter
Made out of just one kind of particle
e.g. gold, pure water, pure oxygen
Pure Substance
Combination of two or more pure substances or other mixtures
Mixture
Solid, gas, or liquid
Most pure substances can be in one of these three states, or phases
State of Matter
Usually determines a substance’s state of matter
Temperature
The attraction between particles is greater than their ability to move away form each other
Solid
Can move around but are still close together
Liquid
Does not have a fixed shape
Gas
Acts like gases, but their particles move so fast and collide so hard that they break apart and become electrically charged
Plasma
A solid becomes a liquid
Melting
A liquid becomes a solid
Freezing
A liquid becomes a gas using heat
Vaporization
If vaporization happens so fast that the liquid forms bubbles that rise through the liquid
Boiling
A liquid becomes a gas in between the melting point and the boiling point of the liquid
Evaporation
When vapor particles stick together
Condensation
A solid becomes a gas
Sublimation
A gas becomes a solid
Deposition
The gravatational pull exerted on an object by another very large object, such as the Earth
Weight
The measure of the space something occupies
Volume
A push or pull
Force
The pull from an object that gives things weight
Gravity
A force that acts on an object as it moves through a distance
Work
The ability to do work
Energy
The law that says energy can not be created or destroyed
First Law of Thermodynamics
The smallest building block of matter
Atom
Atoms with more or fewer electrons than protons
Ion
A pure substance made of one kind of atom
Element
The atoms of one element bonded with atoms from other elements
Compound
Particles formed by the comination of two or more atoms
Molecule
When matter changes in a way that doesn’t change its chemical identity
Physical Change
When a pure substance changes into another substance
Chemical Change
When the very atoms of matter change
Nuclear Change