Classifying Matter / Elements of the Periodic Table

What is the temperature at which a substance changes states from a liquid to a gas?

• Boiling Point

• Classify

• Conductor

• Insulator

What is tending to break rather than to flex or bend?

• Brittle

• Conductivity

• Density

• Luster

What is to sort or put into groups based on similar and dissimilar physical, chemical, or biological characteristics

• Classify

• Conductor

• Insulator

• Magnetism

What is a physical property that describes the ability of a substance to transfer heat or electrical energy?

• Conductivity

• Density

• Luster

• Malleability

What is a substance that allows the flow of electrical charge or transfers thermal energy through matter?

• Conductor

• Insulator

• Magnetism

• Matter

What is the amount of matter in a given space or volume?

• Density

• Luster

• Malleability

• Melting Point

What is a material that does not conduct heat or electric current?

• Insulator

• Magnetism

• Matter

• Metalloids

What is a physical property that describes the way the surface of a substance shines or reflects light, ranging between metallic (shiny) and nonmetallic (dull)?

• Luster

• Malleability

• Melting Point

• Metals

What is a force that attracts or repels objects toward or away from each other; caused by electrons in a substance?

• Magnetism

• Matter

• Metalloids

• Nonmetal

What is a physical property that describes the ability of a material to be permanently reshaped without breaking or cracking?

• Malleability

• Melting Point

• Metals

• Physical Property