Chemistry Vocabulary 1

Directions:

See if you can think of the word or words that go in each blank. Then hover over the blank to see if you were right.

1. All the matter in the familiar states of solid, liquid or gas is made of substances called __________elements that cannot be broken down further.

2. In other words, __________an element is one of more than one hundred substances that are the basic ingredients of matter.

3. A compound contains two or more __________ elements.

4. __________An atomis the basic unit of a chemical element.

5. __________A molecule is the basic unit of a compound.

6. The part of an atom that has a positive charge is called __________a proton .

7. The part of an atom that has a negative charge is called __________an electron.

8. __________A neutron is the part of an atom that has no charge—in other words, it is neutral.

9. The smaller parts of atoms are called __________subatomic particles.

10. The __________nucleus is the part of an atom where protons and neutrons are located, and __________orbitals are the parts of an atom where electrons are located.

11. An element’s atomic number tells you the number of __________protons in each atom.

12. You can subtract the atomic number from the atomic weight to find the number of __________neutrons in each atom of an element.

13. Forms of the same element that have equal numbers of protons but different numbers of neutrons are called __________isotopes.

14. The __________chemical symbol is an abbreviation of an element’s name.