Vocabulary/Termonology Flashcards
What is chemistry?
The systematic study of the chemical and physical properties and the electronic interaction, reaction, and transfer of matter.
What is matter?
Anything that has mass and occupies volume.
What is Mass?
The amount of matter an object possesses.
What is a physical property? Examples..
Easily measured observations. Ex: Color, taste, texture, melting point, boiling point, and heat.
What is a chemical property? Examples..
Something that requires a chemical reaction with things such as air or water. Ex: rusting, tarnish, etc.
How does atomic structure exist?
In orbitals.
What defines the extent of the shape of a atomic structure?
The electron cloud around the nucleus.
What is Transformation? What is it also known as?
To change form from one thing to something else entirely. It’s also known as radioactivity.
What does it mean when people say that chemistry is systematic?
They mean that chemistry happens in specific ways through things such as the scientific method.
What are the steps of the scientific method?
OHTER: Observations, Hypothesis, Test, Evaluate, and Re-Test.
What is a theory? What is another name for a theory?
A fairly well tested idea. A model.
What is a law?
A set of ideas/ observations from which there are no known deviations.
What is serendipity?
Something that happens by chance.
What is the difference between denotation and connotation?
Denotation: explicit meaning.
Connotation: implicit meaning (understood but not put through a clear meaning/description).
