Domain One- Physical Science Flashcards

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Solids

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  • characterized by their ability to retain their shape
  • relatively incompressible
  • melt when heated and vaporize only slightly
  • all substances become solid if cooled sufficiently

Examples: rocks, crystals, wood, feather, ice

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Liquids

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  • take on the shape of their containers, but cannot be compressed to any significant extent
  • volume of a liquid is constant unless evaporation is occurring
  • crystallize when chilled sufficiently, while heat causes them to evaporate
  • intermediate between the solid and gaseous states with regard to molecular motion and attractive forces between molecules

Example: water, oil, milk, honey

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Gases

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  • expand to fill any available space
  • a compressible fluid, with its volume determined by the pressure and temperature of the environment
  • volume varies inversely with the pressure, a relationship known as Boyle’s Law
  • if the pressure increases, the volume decreases; the reverse is true as well

Example: air, helium, steam

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Sublimation

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Allows some elements and compounds to transition from a solid to a gas phase without becoming a liquid
Example: dry ice

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Deposition

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Some gases can transition directly to a solid

Example: frost formation

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Mass

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Amount of matter in a chemical substance; often measured in newtons; in everyday situations, the weight of an object is proportional to its mass

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Density

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Determined by dividing the mass by the volume

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Hardness

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Various properties of matter in the solid phase that give it a high resistance to its shape changing when force is applied

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Scratch hardness

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Resistance to fracture or plastic (permanent) deformation due to friction from a sharp object

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Indentation hardness

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Resistance to plastic (permanent) deformation due to a constant load from a sharp object

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Rebound hardness

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Height of the bounce of an object dropped on the material, related to elasticity

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Mohs’ scale of hardness

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Rates minerals and puts them on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 was the softest and 10 is the hardest) determined by the ability of a harder mineral to scratch a softer mineral

Example: talc = 1, diamond = 10

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Physical properties

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Characteristics that make up the physical composition of a substance

Color, form, electrical conductivity, density

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Physical Changes

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Do not involve changing one substance into another; the state changes, however the molecular composition does not

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Chemical changes

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Occurs when a substance changes into something else; compounds are formed or decomposed; rearrangement of atoms that makes or breaks chemical bonds; typically not reversible

Example: rust

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Chemical Reactions

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Show the number of molecules or formula units of the reactants and products

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Atoms

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Made up of the nucleus (core, center) which is made up of protons (positive charge) and neutrons (no charge); electron clouds contain electrons which have a negative charge and are attracted to protons (orbit one another)

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Chemical Elements

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Composed of only one atom and cannot be separated into different substances except in some instances by radioactive decay or by nuclear reactions; elements are assigned atomic numbers equal to the number of protons in the nucleus of their atoms; each element has a different amount; sum of protons and neutrons gives an average atomic mass for the element

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Compounds

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Formed by the chemical combination of two or more elements in a fixed ration

Example H2O

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Periodic table of elements

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Arranges all known elements from left to right and top to bottom in order of increasing atomic number and generally coincide with their increasing atomic mass; rows are groups/families; contains 117 chemical elements (94 occur naturally, the rest have been produced artificially)

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pH

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Measure of acidity or basicity of a solution; not absolute; pure water is neutral (7.0)

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Litmus

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Water-soluble mixture of different dyes extracted from lichens; often absorbed on filter paper; paper becomes a pH indicator; blue paper turns red under acidic conditions and red paper turns blue under basic conditions

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Mixture

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Substance made by combining two or more different materials without a chemical reaction occurring (objects do not bond)

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Measurement

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Three Basic Units of the Metric System
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Motion
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Velocity
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Newton’s First Law of Motion
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Newton’s Second Law of Motion
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Newton’s Third Law of Motion
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Gravitation
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Magnetism
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Simple Machine
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Four Classical Simple Machines
1. Lever 2. Pulley (block) 3. Inclined Plane 4. Screw
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Forms of energy
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Electricity
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Electric Circuit
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Static Electricity
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Light
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Nuclear Energy
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Degrees Celsius
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Fahrenheit
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Heat Conduction
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Thermal Radiation
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Convection
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Incandescent Light Bulb
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Fluorescent Lamp
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Refraction
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Optics
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Reflection
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Renewable Energy
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Nonrenewable Energy