Properties of Matter Vocabulary
Across
- 5. A characteristic of a substance that describes its ability to change into different substances
- 9. How hot or cold something is; a measure of the average energy of motion / kinetic energy of the particles in a substance
- 13. A substance made of two or more elements chemically combined in a specific ratio or proportion
- 15. Describes how easily a substance dissolves into another substance
- 16. A state of matter with no definite shape or volume
- 18. Two or more substances that are together in the same place, but their atoms are not chemically bonded
Down
- 1. A characteristic of a pure substance that can be observed without changing it into another substance
- 2. Anything that has mass and takes up space
- 3. A group of two or more atoms held together by chemical bonds
- 4. A measure of the force of gravity acting on an object
- 6. The total kinetic and potential energy of all the particles of an object
- 7. A pure substance that cannot be broken down into other substances by chemical or physical means
- 8. The measurement of how much mass of a substance is contained in a given volume
- 10. A state of matter that has a definite shape and a definite volume
- 11. The amount of space that matter occupies
- 12. The basic unit from which all matter is made
- 14. A measure of how much matter is in an object
- 15. A single kind of matter that is pure and has a specific set of properties
- 17. A state of matter that has no definite shape but has a definite volume