Chemistry Test Review Flashcards
Physical Properties
Able to be usually observed with our senses, it allows us to distinguish one kind of matter from another. It is able to change, but not to make new substances. Breaking, grinding, splitting, crumbling, dissolving, eroding, cutting, drying, evaporating, melting, freezing and condensing are all physical properties
Kinetic Molecular Theory of Matter
Motion of molecules that determines if the matter is a solid, liquid, or a gas. Solids move very little, gases move very quickly colliding into each other, and liquids move freely but in a defined space
Physical change
Occurs when the appearance of matter changes, but in composition of the matter does not change. Changes in size, shape, color, odor, hardness, or gas, solid, or liquid are all physical changes. This can be done by cutting, dissolving, evaporating, and flattening
Physical constants
Density, boiling, melting, and freezing points
Chemical properties
Being only to be observed in a chemical reaction, it is a description of how one chemical reacts to another chemical. This is only recognized when chemicals react with one another. Color change, bubbles, gas, odor, new chemical, heat, light are all examples.
Chemical change
Occurs when new kinds of matter are formed. The composition of the matter changes and the new kinds of matter have different properties from the old matter. The properties of the original substance can no longer be recognized.
Pure substance
The same composition throughout and occurs naturally. They are called elements and compounds.
Element
Cannot be broken down
Compounds
Formed when the chemical combination of two or more elements. The elements cannot be separated physically. The properties of a compound are entirely different from the properties of each of the elements that make up the compound.
Mixtures
Formed when two or more substances are physically combined. The parts of a mixture can be physically separated from each other. All of the substances in a mixture retain original properties
Homogenous mixture
Parts of mixture are evenly distributed
Heterogenous mixture
Parts of mixture are not evenly distributed
Inertia
The resistance to change (inert)
Solutions
Homogenous mixtures of two or more substances.
Solute
Substance dissolved in a solution