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1. What is matter?
anything that has mass and takes up space
2. What is an atom?
smallest basic building blocks of matter
3. What are the three states of matter?
Solid, liquid, and gas
4. What are three things that are NOT
matter?
Heat, light, and sound
5. What is an element?
A substance that consists of just one type
of atom
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6. What is a compound?
Two or more different atoms bonded
(connected) together
7. What is mass?
a measure of how much matter an object
contains
8. What is volume?
the amount of space that matter in an
object occupies
9. What are 2 ways to find volume?
(L*W*H) regular and displacement
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10. Draw 3 diagrams of how the atoms of
a solid, liquid and gas are arranged.
solid
liquid
gas
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11. How do the atoms in a solid, liquid and
gas move?
solid: vibrate in place
liquid: slide past each other
gas: move very quickly
12. What are the shapes (definite or
indefinite) of a solid, liquid, and gas?
solid: definite
liquid: indefinite
gas: indefinite
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13. What are the volumes (definite or
indefinite) of a solid, liquid, and gas?
solid: definite
liquid: definite
gas: indefinite
14. What are examples EACH of a solid,
liquid and gas?
Various answers
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15. What are freezing point and boiling
point of water (the two temperatures in
oC)?
freezing point of water 0oC
boiling point of water 100oC
16. Where are protons and neutrons
located in an atom?
In the nucleus
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17. Know the definitions of the phase
changes (melting, boiling/vaporization,
freezing, condensation, sublimation,
deposition, and evaporation) and what
happens to the temperature.
melting –
the process by which a solid becomes a liquid
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Boiling –
Boiling is a process by which a liquid becomes a
gas of bubbles that contain energetic
molecules that have escaped from the liquid
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Vaporization –
change of matter from a liquid state to a gas
Freezing –
the process by which a liquid becomes a solid
Condensation –
the process by which a gas becomes a liquid
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Sublimation –
when solids change directly to a gas
Deposition –
When a gas changes directly to a solid
Evaporation –
the process by which a liquid becomes a gas at the
surface of a liquid
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18. Where are electrons located in an
atom? Draw a model of an atom.
Orbiting around the nucleus
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7
N
Nitrogen
14.007
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a. What is the name of the element?
Nitrogen
b. What is the element symbol?
N
c. What is the atomic number?
7
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d. What is the atomic mass?
14.007
e. How many protons are there?
7
f. How many electrons are there?
7
g. How many neutrons are there?
7
7
N
Nitrogen
14.007
20.
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7 protons
7 electrons –
2 on Energy Street,
5 on Energy Freeway
7 neutrons
7
N
Nitrogen
14.007
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21. How do you calculate density?
D=M
V
22. How do you find the mass of an object if you
have the volume and the density?
you multiply the volume and the density
23. How do you calculate for the volume if you have
the mass and density?
density divided into the mass
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24. Calculate the volume.
__60cm3_____
25. Calculate the volume.
____270in3_
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26. What is the definition of a physical property?
Physical properties are features that can be
observed or measured without changing what the
substance is made of.
27. What is a compound?
A compound is a substance formed when two or
more chemical elements are chemically bonded
together.
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28. What are the first 10 elements in order?