AND CORRECT ANSWERS
Matter - CORRECT ANSWER Anything that has mass and occupies space.
Physical property - CORRECT ANSWER A characteristic of a pure substance that can
be observed without changing it into another substance.
Chemical property - CORRECT ANSWER A characteristic of a pure substance that
describes its ability to change into different substances.
Element - CORRECT ANSWER A pure substance that cannot be broken down into
simpler substances by physical or chemical means.
Atom - CORRECT ANSWER Smallest unit of matter that retains the properties of an
element.
Chemical bond - CORRECT ANSWER A force of attraction that holds two atoms
together.
Molecule - CORRECT ANSWER A particle formed when two or more atoms are held
together by chemical bonds.- ex. O2 and H2O
Mass - CORRECT ANSWER A measure of the amount of matter in an object.
Compound - CORRECT ANSWER A pure substance made of two or more elements
chemically combined in a set ratio.
Chemical formula - CORRECT ANSWER A combination of symbols that represents
the elements in a compound and their proportions.