1. Matter Vocabulary

2. matter
Anything that has mass and takes up space and has properties that you can observed and describe.

3. buoyancy The upward force of water or air on an object.

4. mass
The amount of matter in an object.

5. solid
The state of matter that has a definite shape and a definite volume.

6. liquid
The state of matter that has a definite volume but no definite shape.

7. gas
The state of matter that does not have a definite shape or volume.

8. Measuring Matter

9. metric system A system of measurement based on units of 10.

10. length
The number of units that fit along one edge of something.

11. area The number of unit square that fit inside of surface.
Example:   area = 9 square units

12. volume
the amount of space that something takes up. 

13. weight
The measure of the pull of gravity between an object and Earth.

14. density
The amount of matter in a given space.

15. What Matter Is Made Of.

16. element
A substance made up of only one kind of atom.

17. mixture
A blending of two or more types of matter that are not chemically combined.

18. filter
A tool used to separate things by size.

19. evaporation
Is the change of liquid to gas.

20. More About Matter

21. conductor
Materials that transfers heat well.

22. convection
The movement of heat in liquids and gases from warmer areas to cooler areas.

23. chemical property
A property that involves how a substance interacts with other substances.

24. chemical change a change in matter that makes new matter.
When metal rusts,
it is a chemical change. l

25. atom
The smallest unit of an element that has all the properties of that element.

26. conduction
The movement of heat between two materials that are touching.

27. heat
The flow of thermal energy from one object to another.

28. compound
A substance made of two or more different elements.

29. insulator
A material that does not transfer heat very well.

30. radiation
The transfer of heat through space.

31. physical change
A change that begins and ends with the same type of matter.

32. Physical property A property that involves a substance by itself.
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