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1. Slide 1: Matter Vocabulary By Mónica Alonso
2. Slide 2: matter Anything that has mass and takes up space and has properties that you can observed and describe.
3. Slide 3: buoyancy The upward force of water or air on an object. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/buoybasics.html
4. Slide 4: mass The amount of matter in an object.
5. Slide 5: solid The state of matter that has a definite shape and a definite volume.
6. Slide 6: liquid The state of matter that has a definite volume but no definite shape.
7. Slide 7: gas The state of matter that does not have a definite shape or volume.
8. Slide 8: Measuring Matter
9. Slide 9: metric system A system of measurement based on units of 10. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~hillger/everyday.htm
10. Slide 10: length The number of units that fit along one edge of something.
11. Slide 11: area The number of unit square that fit inside of surface. Example: area = 9 square units
12. Slide 12: volume the amount of space that something takes up.
13. Slide 13: weight The measure of the pull of gravity between an object and Earth.
14. Slide 14: density The amount of matter in a given space.
15. Slide 15: What Matter Is Made Of.
16. Slide 16: element A substance made up of only one kind of atom.
17. Slide 17: mixture A blending of two or more types of matter that are not chemically combined.
18. Slide 18: filter A tool used to separate things by size.
19. Slide 19: evaporation Is the change of liquid to gas.
20. Slide 20: More About Matter
21. Slide 21: conductor Materials that transfers heat well.
22. Slide 22: convection The movement of heat in liquids and gases from warmer areas to cooler areas. http://www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/science07/index4.html
23. Slide 23: chemical property A property that involves how a substance interacts with other substances.
24. Slide 24: chemical change a change in matter that makes new matter. When metal rusts, it is a chemical change. http://www.harcourtschool.com/glossary/science07/index4.htm l
25. Slide 25: atom The smallest unit of an element that has all the properties of that element.
26. Slide 26: conduction The movement of heat between two materials that are touching.
27. Slide 27: heat The flow of thermal energy from one object to another.
28. Slide 28: compound A substance made of two or more different elements.
29. Slide 29: insulator A material that does not transfer heat very well.
30. Slide 30: radiation The transfer of heat through space.
31. Slide 31: physical change A change that begins and ends with the same type of matter.
32. Slide 32: Physical property A property that involves a substance by itself. Quartz