Types of Matter and Physical Chemistry

Which statement BEST describes what happened to the metal on the nail?

• The nail was damaged by rodents.

• The metal on the nail was worn by pollution.

• The metal on the nail combined with rain water and formed a new substance.

• The nail was worn by too much use.

Which state of matter has both definite shape and definite volume?

• Gas

• Liquid

• Solid

Matter with a composition that is always the same.

• Substance

• Mass

• Atom

• Conservation

Substance that consists of just one type of atom.

• Gas

• Element

• Molecule

• Atom

Substance containing atoms of two or more different elements chemically bonded together.

• Elements

• Molecule

• Substance

• Compound

Type of mixture in which the individual substances are not evenly mixed.

• Solubility

• Homogeneous mixture

• Compound

• Heterogeneous mixture

Characteristic of matter that you can observe or measure without changing the identity of the matter.

• Physical Property

• Physical Change

• Chemical Property

• Mass

A change in the size, shape, form or state of matter in which the matter’s identity stays the same

• Physical change

• Physical property

• Chemical Change

• Molecule

A change in matter in which the substances that make up the matter change into other substances with new physical and chemical properties.

• Physical change

• Chemical change

• Chemical property

• Physical property

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What type of matter is this?

d

plasma

gas

solid

liquid

Tags

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