Properties and Interactions of Matter Worksheet
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1. What is the smallest part of all matter? _______________________________________________________
4. What are the three basic parts of an atom? __________________________________________________
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5. What electrical charges do these parts have? __________________________________________________
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6. Where are the basic parts found? ______________________________________________________________
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7. Where is most of the mass of an atom found? _________________________________________________
8. What part of the atom takes up the most space? ______________________________________________
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1. How are atoms of the same kind of matter similar? ____________________________________________
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2. What is the atomic number of an atom? ________________________________________________________
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3. How do the number of protons and electrons compare in a normal atom?
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5. Why are normal atoms said to be electrically neutral? ________________________________________
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6 & 7 How do you use the periodic table to determine the number of protons in an atom?
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1. What is an element? ______________________________________________________________________________
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2. What do you know about all of the atoms in the element oxygen? ___________________________
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3. How do oxygen atoms compare to the atoms in another element, Hydrogen?
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4. What are two ways that elements can be made? _______________________________________________
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7. What is good about classifying in science? ______________________________________________________
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8. How is it possible that the Periodic Table of the Elements is useful to all scientists, no
matter what language they speak? _________________________________________________________________
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