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KEY TERMS

  1. NATURAL SCIENCE IS DIVIDED INTO WHAT TWO CATEGORIES
    • 1-NONLIVING MATTER
    • 2-LIVING MATTER
  2. PHYSICAL SCIENCE IS THE STUDY OF
    NONLIVING MATTER
  3. BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE IS THE STUDY OF
    LIVING MATTER
  4. MASS
    IS THE QUANITY OF MATTER CONTAINED IN AN OBJECT
  5. WEIGHT
    IS THE FORCE IN WHICH AN OBJECT EXERTS UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF GRAVITY
  6. SUBSTANCE
    IS A MATERIAL THAT HAS A DIFINITE AND CONSTANT COMPOSITION
  7. MIXTURE
    IS WHEN TWO OR MORE SUBSTANCES ARE COMBINED
  8. SUBSTANCES CAN EITHER BE WHAT (TWO) THINGS?
    1-SIMPLE, OR 2-COMPLEX
  9. SIMPLE SUBSTANCES ARE KNOWN AS?
    ELEMENTS
  10. COMPLEX SUBSTANCES ARE KNOWN AS?
    COMPOUNDS
  11. ELEMENT IS?
    A SUBSTANCE THAT CANNOT BE BROKEN DOWN INTO ANY SIMPLER SUBSTANCES BY ORDINARY MEANS
  12. ATOM IS?
    THE SMALLEST PARTICLE OF AN ELEMENT THAT STILL POSSESSES THE CHEMICAL PROPERTIES OF THAT ELEMENT
  13. MOLECULE IS?
    IS THE SMALLEST PARTICLE OF A COMPOUND THAT STILL POSSESSES THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE COMPOUND
  14. RADIATION
    IS WHEN ENERGY IS EMITTED AND TRANSFERRED THROUGH MATTER
  15. RADIATION IS A TERM APPLIED TO MANY FORMS OF ENERGY, SUCH AS?
    HEAT OR LIGHT
  16. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MATTER AND ENERGY?
    THEY ARE INTERCHANGEABLE:::EINSTEIN DESCRIBES THE RELATINSHIP IN AN EQUATION----  E=mc2----E=ENERGY, M=MASS, C=CONSTANT(THE SPEED OF LIGHT IN A VACUUM)
  17. ATOMS CAN BE SUBDIVIDED INTO WHAT THREE BASIC SUBATOMIC PARTICLES?
    PROTONS, NEUTRONS, & ELECTRONS
  18. NUCLEUS
    SMALL DENSE CENTER OF THE ATOM
  19. NUCLEONS
    REFERRED TO AS PROTONS AND NEUTRONS TOGETHER
  20. QUARKS
    SMALLER SUBNUCLEAR STRUCTURES OF PROTONS AND NEUTRONS
  21. M THEORY
    OVERALL CONCEPT OF THE QUARKS
  22. STRING THEORY
    ELECTRONS AND QUARKS MAY NOT BE PARTICLES, BUT EXTREMELY SMALL LOOPS OF RAPIDLY VIBRATING STRING-LIKE MATTER
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