Atom Unit Test Study Guide: The following is a study guide for your upcoming Atom Unit Test on
11/8/2018. Use your notes to fill in the study guide. Any material covered in the unit is fair game for the
test.
- What is matter?
- What is the difference between mass and weight?
- What is mass?
- What is volume? Know all of the volume formulas covered in class.
- What is density? What is the density formula? Be able to solve for density.
- What is water displacement?
- What is a physical property? Be able to describe and identify the following: Density, Electrical
Conductivity, Thermal Conductivity, Solubility, Malleability, Luster, Melting Point, Magnetic
Attraction, Boiling Point
- What is a chemical property? Be able to describe and identify the following: flammability and
reactivity.
- What is a physical change?
- What is a chemical change? Be able to identify the five signs of a chemical change
- What is the law of conservation of mass? How did the baking soda and vinegar activity prove the
law of conservation of mass.
- What is a solid? Be able to describe its behavior in different situations.
- What is a liquid? Be able to describe its behavior in different situations.
- What is a gas? Be able to describe its behavior in different situations.
- Understand why going from a Solid liquid Gas requires adding energy
- Understand why going from a Gas liquid Solid requires removing energy
- Be able to describe and identify what happens during melting, freezing, boiling/evaporating,
condensation, sublimation, and deposition
- What is an atom?
- Know how atoms form covalent, ionic, and hydrogen bonds.
- Understand atomic structure. Where the three subatomic particles are located. Which ones make
up the nucleus.
- Understand the importance of the atomic number, the mass number, and how many electrons fit
on each electron cloud
- Understand what the purpose of the periodic table is
- Understand how periods work. Understand how groups work.
- What’s the difference between metals, nonmetals, and metalloids?
- What is an element? What is a compound? What is a mixture? What is a pure substance?
- Know how inorganic matter is organized.
Vocabulary:
Matter Mass Weight Volume Density
Physical Property Chemical Property Physical Change Chemical Change
Law of Conservation of Mass Solid Liquid Gas
Atom Element Compound Mixture
Pure Substance Heterogeneous Homogeneous Proton
Neutron Nucleus Electron Electron Cloud
Atomic Number Mass Number Periodic Table Chemical Symbol
Average Atomic Mass Metal Nonmetal Metalloid Group
Period