Matter

Name:_______________

Date:____________

1. _____ is anything which has mass and takes up space.

2. ____ is the amount of matter something contains.

3. At sea level on earth, ____ and ______ are the same.

4. One way that scientists classify matter is: ______, _______,

___, and ______.

5. _______ do not have a definite shape, but take on the shape of the container they are in.

6. _____ have no definite shape or volume.

7. Examples of gases are ________,______,______,________,______ _______, ______ ________, and ozone.

8. ______ exists only in extremely high temperatures, such as inside of stars like our ___. It is the product of _______ ______ and is similar to a ___.

9. ___ is the solid form of water.

10. _____ _____ is the gas form of water.

11. ___ ___ is the solid form of carbon dioxide.

12. Plastic is a solid form of ___.

13. Matter can change form when the ___________ is changed.

14. Ordinarily when a solid is heated, it goes from a _____ to a ______ to a ___.

15. Sublimate means to ____ a state.

16. When dry ice is heated it goes from the solid state to a gas, skipping the ______ state.

17. List the three (3) characteristics of metals:

A. ____ ___ __ ________ __ __ ____ _____.

B. ____ ___ _______.

C. ____ ___ _______ ____ __________ __ ____ ___ ___________.

18. _______ means that something can be made into wires.

19. List eight (8) examples of metals.

20. List the three (3) characteristics of non-metals:

A. ____ ___ _______ ___ _____.

B. ____ ___ _______ ___ _______.

C. ____ ___ _______ ____ __________ __ ____ ___ _________.

21. Another way to classify matter is as ________,________ and ________.

22. An _______ is matter composed of only one kind of atom.

23. The ____ is generally thought of as being the smallest unit of matter.

24. Oxygen, gold, iodine, uranium, silver, carbon, helium, hydrogen, sodium, and chlorine are all ________.

25. There are _ _ known naturally occurring elements, plus several which are man-made.

26. Give the abbreviations (symbols) for the following elements:

hydrogen, helium, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, cobalt, zinc, arsenic, gold, mercury, copper, lead, silver, lithium, uranium, chlorine, aluminum, silicon, iodine, neon, and nickel.

27. _________ are matter composed of two or more elements which are chemically bonded together.

28. List seven (7) compounds and give their symbols (abbreviations).

29. ________ are matter composed of two or more substances which are not chemically bonded together.

30. A mixture of two or more metals is called an _____.

31. _____ is an alloy of copper and zinc.

32. _________ ____ is an alloy of chromium, manganese and iron.

33. The difference between a compound and a mixture is that in a compound the elements are __________ ______ together and in a mixture they are not __________ ______ together.

34. The word "________" means to form a solution.

35. A ________ is a special kind of mixture in which the substances are spread evenly throughout each other.

36. The ______ is the substance which dissolves.

37. The _______ is the substance which does the dissolving.

38. In sugar water, the sugar is the ______ and the water is the _______.

39. _____ is the most common solvent.

40. Hydrochloric acid (HCl) is _______ acid.

41. When ________ ____ becomes dissolved in water, it forms a type of acid rain which can dissolve underground pockets of limestone. When the limestone dissolves, the ground above might suddenly collapse to form a ____ ____.

42. __________ _____ is a solution composed of carbon dioxide gas dissolved in water.

43. A _________ ________ contains the maximum amount of solute that will dissolve in the solvent.

44. An ___________ ________ contains less than the maximum amount of solute that will dissolve in the solvent.

45. ________ ______ is a change in the properties of a substance without a change in the substance itself.

46. An example of a physical change is water changing in phase from a _______ (ice), to a _______, to a ___ (water vapor).

47. The most common physical changes are the changes in _____ or _____.

48. Changes in state or phase occur when a substance changes from a _____ to a ______ to a ___ due to changes in ___________.

49. Water freezes at _ _ degrees Fahrenheit or _ degrees Celsius.

50. Water forms a gas vapor at _ _ _ degrees Fahrenheit or _ _ _ degrees Celsius.

51. ___________ is the physical change from a liquid to a gas.

52. ____________ is the physical change from a gas to a liquid.

53. A ________ ______ is a change which produces a new substance.

54. _______ produces a chemical change.

55. When gasoline burns it changes from gasoline to _____ and ______ _______.

56. When iron rusts, it changes from iron to ____ _____ (rust).

57. In a chemical change the volume of the substance may change, but the ____ does not.

58. The ___ __ ____________ __ _____ states that in a chemical change, mass is not gained or lost.

59. The Law of Conservation of Mass states that matter cannot be _______ nor _________, but can only be changed in ____.

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