| A | B |
| physical property | characteristic that you can observe without changing or trying to change the composition of the substance. |
| states of matter | solid, liquid, gas |
| senses | smell, taste, sight, touch |
| melting poin | temperature at which a solid changes into a liquid |
| boiling point | temperature at which a liquid changes into a gas |
| magnetic properties | pulls iron toward them |
| chemical property | characteristic that cannot be observed without altering the substance. |
| physical change | form or appearance of matter changes, but not composition |
| vaporization | liquid changes to gas |
| condesation | gas changes to a liquid |
| sublimation | solid changes directly to a gas |
| deposition | gas changes into a solid |
| chemical change | substances are changed into different substances: composition changes |
| chemical change | bike rusts in the rain |
| law of conservation of mass | mass is neither created or destroyed; mass before a physical or chemical change is equal to mass present after the change |