Science Vocabulary - Physical Science

2. Material that something is made up of.
4. A change in the size or form of a substance without it becoming a new substance.
8. The amount of matter in an object.
9. Two or more kinds of matter put together.
10. Two forces, equal in strength, pushing or pulling in opposite directions on an object.
11. A flow of electrical charges through a conductor.
12. To cause a solid or gas to pass into a liquid and form a solution.
13. Energy that comes from the temperature of matter.
18. Being pulled to other objects because they are made of metal.
21. The amount of space something takes up
22. A combination of electrical energy and magnetic energy, only a small fraction can be seen by the human eye.
23. An electric or magnetic force that acts between two oppositely charged items drawing them together
25. Stored Energy
26. Energy that is stored in substances
28. Change in position
29. A material through which electricity can flow easily.

1. Happens when two surfaces move over each other.
3. A change in the properties of a substance that creates an entirely new substance.
5. A looped path of conductors through which electric current flows.
6. Energy given off by an object that is vibrating.
7. A push or a pull
9. An object’s potential energy plus its kinetic energy.
11. Energy made by the flow of an electric charge through a conductor.
14. Earth’s ________ is a force that pulls things to the center of the Earth
15. Energy of Motion
16. Theory that describes the structure, behavior, and other properties of an atom
17. Two forces acting on an object that are not equal in size. Unbalanced forces cause the object to move, speed up, slow down, stop, or change direction.
18. To increase the size of an object to make it bigger than it actually is.
19. Energy an object has because of its motion
20. The smallest piece of matter that can still be identified as that matter
24. Mixture of two or more kinds of matter evenly spread out.
27. A material that slows or stops the flow of electricity