| A | B |
| Solution ex. | steel |
| Mechanical Mixture ex. | cookie dough |
| Pure substance ex. | distilled water |
| Colloid ex. | milk |
| Suspension ex. | italian salad dressing |
| Matter | makes up everything |
| Pure substance | substances made up of one type of matter |
| Mixture | two or more substances combined together |
| Mechanical mixture | you can see the different substances that make up the mixture |
| Solution | appears pure - looks like one substance but is more than one |
| Suspension | cloudy mixture in which tiny pieces of one substance are held in another |
| Colloid | cloudy mixture with pieces so tiny they don't separate out easily |