First Six Weeks Vocab

A material that does not allow heat or energy to move through it easily. Examples: Plastic, Glass, Wood, Rubber, Styrofoam

• Conductor

• Insulator

• Semiconductor

• Superconductor

the temperature at which a liquid becomes a solid

• boiling point

• melting point

• freezing point

• sublimation point

amount of space an object takes up

• mass

• density

• volume

• weight

concentration of matter in an object

• mass

• volume

• density

• weight

made up of molecules loosely connected and has a definite volume, but no definite size or shape

• solid

• gas

• liquid

• plasma

change of a gas to a liquid

• evaporation

• sublimation

• condensation

• precipitation

A material that allows heat and electricity to pass through it. Examples: All metals and water

• insulator

• conductor

• semiconductor

• resistor

the temperature at which a liquid becomes a gas

• boiling point

• melting point

• freezing point

• sublimation point

the temperature at which a solid becomes a liquid

• boiling point

• melting point

• freezing point

• sublimation point

the measure of the pull of gravity.

• mass

• weight

• density

• volume