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Chemical Building Blocks

Scavenger Hunt – MATTER

What is Matter?

How is matter identified?

What is the difference between physical properties and chemical properties?

What are the states or phases of matter?

How does matter move from one state of matter to another state?

What are the pieces that make up an atom?

What kind of charge does an electron have?

What kind of charge does a proton have?

What kind of charge does a neutron have?

How do electrons move in an atom?

What is the nucleus of an atom?

What is an element?

How many basic elements have scientists discovered?

What is the Periodic Table of Elements?

See an image of the periodic table here.