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matter | anything that takes up space and has weight |
property | something about an object-such as size, shape, color or smell-that you can observe with one or more of your senses |
volume | the amount of space an object takes up |
mass | the measure of how much matter an object contains |
physical change | a change in the way matter looks, but the kind of matter remains the same |
mixture | two or more kinds of matter that are placed together but can be easily separated |
states of matter | the three forms of matter-solid, liquid, and gas |
solid | a state in which matter has a definite volume but no shape of its own |
liquid | a state in which matter has a definite volume but no shape of its own |
gas | a state in which matter has no definite shape or volume |
water vapor | water in a gas state |
evaporate | changes from a liquid state to a gas state |
condense | changes from a gas state to a liquid state |
chemical change | a change that causes one kind of matter to become a different kind of matter |