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What is matter?
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Matter is anything that has mass and takes up space.
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What is mass?
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Mass is a measure of the amount of matter something contains.
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What is volume?
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Volume is the amount of space that matter takes up.
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What is a property?
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A property is something that describes matter.
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What are physical properties?
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Physical properties of a material are those characteristics that can be seen or measured without changing the material.
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What are chemical properties?
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Chemical properties are things that can only be seen when the materials changes and new materials form.
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What is a standard unit?
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It is a unit of measurement that is agreed on and used by everyone.
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What is the metric system?
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It is a system of measurement that is based on the number 10 and multiples of 10. In other words it is a decimal system.
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What are states of matter?
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Solid, liquid and gas
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What is an element?
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It is any material made up of only one kind of matter.
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What is an atom?
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It is the smallest part of an element that has the properties of that element.
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What is a chemical symbol?
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It is one of two letter that stand for the name of an element.
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What is a compound?
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A compound is a kind of matter made up of two or more elements that are joined together.
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What is a substance?
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A subatance is a large class of matter made up of elements and compounds.
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What is a chemical formula?
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It is a group of symbols that show the kind and number of each element in a single unit of a compound.
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What is energy?
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It is the ability to cause change. It takes energy to make something move.
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What is evaporation?
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It is the change of state from liquid to gas.
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What is melting?
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It is the change of state from solid to liquid.
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What is boiling?
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It is the rapid change of state from liquid to gas.
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What is condensation?
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It is the change of state from gas to liquid.
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What is freezing?
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It is the change of state from liquid to solid.
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What is a physical change?
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It is a change in the size, shape or state of matter with no new matter being formed.
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What is a mixture?
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It is matter made up of two or more different substances.
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What is a solution?
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It is a mixture in which particles of different substances are mixed evenly throughout.
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What is a chemical change?
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Any change in matter that results in one of more different kind of matter forming.
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What are chemical properties?
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They describe how matter reacts with other matter.
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What is a chemical reaction?
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It is the process in which one or more substances are changed into one or more different substances.
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