1. Unit 2 Vocabulary
6th Grade Science

2. Brittle
easily cracked, snapped, or broken; fragile

3. Conductivity
ability to conduct electrical current

4. Density
degree of consistency measured by the quantity of mass per unit volume.

5. Dullness
having very little depth of color; lacking in richness or intensity of color.

6. Ductility
ability to be
stretched into a wire without breaking.

7. Insulator
a substance or device that does not readily conduct electricity.

8. Luster
how the surface of a mineral appears when it reflects light (e.g., shiny or dull)

9. Magnetism
the property of
attraction displayed by magnets

10. Malleability
ability to be formed or shaped under pressure (e.g., metals hammered or rolled into thin sheets)

11. Mass
the actual
amount of matter that is contained in an object.

12. Matter
the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed. Has mass and takes up space!!!

13. Metalloids
substances that exhibit some properties of metals and nonmetals

14. Metals
substances that have the physical properties of luster, conductivity, and malleability; may appear in all three states of matter

15. Nonmetals
substances that have the physical properties of being dull, insulators, and brittle; may appear in all three states of matter

16. Temperature-
is a measure of how hot or cold something is; thermal energy

17. Volume
the amount of space that a substance or object occupies

18. Water Displacement the weight or the volume
of fluid displaced by a floating
or submerged body.