Matter and Its Classification Flashcards (27 cards)

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1Question

What topics do the lesson objectives explore?

Answer

Physical and chemical properties, categories of matter, and chemists’ work.

2Question

What happens to a substance’s identity during a physical change?

Answer

It remains the same.

3Question

What happens to a substance’s chemical identity during a chemical change?

Answer

It changes.

4Question

Into which two categories is matter classified?

Answer

Pure substances and mixtures.

5Question

What is consistent throughout a pure substance?

Answer

Its composition and its chemical and physical properties.

6Question

What is a mixture?

Answer

A blend of two or more pure substances that retain their identities.

7Question

What is an element?

Answer

A pure substance containing one kind of atom that cannot be separated into simpler substances by chemical or physical means.

8Question

What is a compound?

Answer

A pure substance containing two or more different elements chemically bonded together.

9Question

What is required to separate a compound into its elements?

Answer

A chemical reaction.

10Question

How is composition distributed throughout a homogeneous mixture?

Answer

It is uniform throughout.

11Question

How is composition distributed throughout a heterogeneous mixture?

Answer

It is not uniform throughout.

12Question

What principle allows physical methods to separate mixtures?

Answer

They use differences in the components’ physical properties.

13Question

What does electrolysis use to break down water molecules?

Answer

Electric current.

14Question

Which standards are listed for Newton’s second law and engineering?

Answer

HS-PS2-1 and HS-ETS1-1 through HS-ETS1-4.

15Question

What engineering activities do HS-ETS1-1 through HS-ETS1-4 cover?

Answer

Engineering analysis, design, evaluation, and simulation.

16Question

What is the subject explored through physical and chemical properties and categories?

Answer

Matter.

17Question

Which property terms appear in the lesson vocabulary?

Answer

Physical, chemical, extensive, and intensive properties.

18Question

Which is a pure substance: distilled water or salt water?

Answer

Distilled water.

19Question

Which is a mixture: distilled water or salt water?

Answer

Salt water.

20Question

How is carbon dioxide classified in the Elements and Compounds section?

Answer

As a compound.

21Question

What kind of mixture is sugar water?

Answer

A homogeneous mixture.

22Question

What kind of mixture is a bowl of mixed nuts?

Answer

A heterogeneous mixture.

23Question

Why is milk described as a heterogeneous mixture?

Answer

Its components are not uniformly mixed.

24Question

What happens to milk fat globules when milk is poured into a glass?

Answer

They rise to the top.

25Question

What does a filter do during filtration?

Answer

It catches large particles while smaller particles pass through.

26Question

How does centrifugation separate particles from a mixture?

Answer

It spins the mixture at high speed.

27Question

What determines how chromatography separates mixture components?

Answer

Their different relative attractions to a medium and a solvent.

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1. A laboratory mixture contains two substances that differ in a physical property, and neither substance needs to be chemically changed. What general approach can separate them?

2. A sample contains atoms of just one kind and cannot be broken into simpler substances by physical or chemical means. How should it be classified?

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