Download Honors Biology Summer Assignment Basic Chemistry Vocabulary

Honors Biology Summer Assignment
Basic Chemistry Vocabulary
Part One
Use the same scantron as the scientific vocabulary to answer questions
26. Matter
a. dense area in center of atom; house protons and neutrons
27. Mass
b. table used to organize all elements into rows and columns
28. Solid
c. object that has definite volume but shape changes
29. Liquid
d. amount of matter an object contains
30. Gas
e. atomic particle have no change; found in nucleus
31. Atom
ab. number determined by combining the number of protons
and neutrons
32. Nucleus
ac. atomic particle having a positive charge; in nucleus
33. Proton
ad. pure substance made of only one type of atoms; cannot
be broken into smaller pieces
34. Neutron
ae. basic building block of matter; smallest particle that retains
properties of an element
35. Electron
bc. anything that occupies space and has a mass
36. Electron Shell
bd. vast area outside of the nucleus of an atom; electrons are here
37. Atomic Number be. object that has a definite shape and definite volume
38. Mass Number
cd. number assigned to an atom; equal to number of protons
39. Periodic table
ce. negatively charge particle of an atom found circling nucleus
40. Element
de. substance that has no shape or volume, particles not linked and
will fill container it occupies
Basic Chemistry Vocab Part Two
41. Molecule
a. any charged particle
42. Chemical reaction
b. having a set amount of solute/solvent ratio
43. Ion
c. physical combining of two or more substances
44. Isotope
d. type of mixture; one or more substances
equally distributed in another
45. Isomer
e. type of bond in which the electrons are shared
46. Ionic bond
ab. atoms with the same number of protons but a different
number of neutrons changing the atomic mass
47. Covalent bond
ac. substance composed of two or more different elements
in definite proportions
48. Mixture
ad. type of bond in which there is a transfer of electrons
49. Solute
ae. substance in a solution that does the dissolving
50. Solvent
bc. substance in a solution that is dissolved
51. Solution
bd. formed by two or more atoms that are chemically
combined; smallest unit of most compounds
52. Suspension
be. type of mixture; particles are even distributed in another
but not dissolved, can exists in all states of matter
53. Colloid
cd. process of making/breaking chemical bonds
54. Concentration
ce. type of mixture; particles to do not dissolve in another but
break apart into smaller pieces
55. Compound
de. compounds having the same elements and same
number of each element, but are arranged differently
giving it different properties than others