Matter: Physical and Chemicla Properties

Question 1

What is matter?

Answer 1

Matter is anything that has mass and volume. It’s the “stuff” something is made up of.

Question 2

What is a property of matter?

Answer 2

It is a characteristic of mater or a way to describe matter.

Question 3

What is chemistry?

Answer 3

Chemistry is the study of the properties of matter and how matter changes.

Question 4

What is a substance?

Answer 4

A substance is a single kind of matter that is PURE, meaning that it always has a specific makeup or composition and a specific set of properties.

Question 5

What are the two kinds of pure substances?

Answer 5

The two kinds are elements and compounds

Question 6

What is a physical property?

Answer 6

A physical property is a characteristic of a substance that can be observed without changing into a different substance.

Question 7

Size is

Answer 7

how big or small

Question 8

Shape is

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round, square, or irregular

Question 9

Color is

Answer 9

red, blue, etc.

Question 10

Smell or odor is

Answer 10

how it smells

Question 11

Texture is

Answer 11

rough or smooth

Question 12

Mass is

Answer 12

the amount of matter

Question 13

Volume is

Answer 13

the amount of space an object takes up

Question 14

Weight is

Answer 14

the pull of gravity on an object’s mass

Question 15

Density is

Answer 15

the ratio of mass to volume (amount of mass per unit of volume)

Question 16

Thermal Conductivity is

Answer 16

the ability to transfer heat from one area to another

Question 17

State of matter is

Answer 17

solid, liquid, or gas

Question 18

Malleability is

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the ability to be hammered into thin sheets

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Ductility is

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the ability to be drawn into thin wires

Question 20

Solubility is

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the ability to dissolve

Question 21

Melting or Boiling point is

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the temperature at which a substance melts or boils

Question 22

Composition is

Answer 22

the parts of the whole (what makes up the substance)

Ex: the seeds in an orange, the rind, the vitamin C

Question 23

What is a chemical property?

Answer 23

A chemical property describes a substance based on its ability to change into a new substance with different properties.
> it can’t be observed by looking at or touching a substance. You have to try to change it into another substance, but, like physical properties, chemical properties help to identify a substance.
Ex: flammable - ability to burn, reactivity - with water, oxygen, or other elements