Unit test is a week from tomorrow.  
Snow day homework: call your study buddy (s) and tell them to answer the first 10 questions of the Unit Study Guide on a separate piece of paper:

Study Guide for Chemistry of Materials, pt. 1

 Instructions: This study guide includes material to study but does not reference every question that will be on the test.

1. What is a physical property of a substance? Explain and give examples.

Help if you need it: http://www.chem.tamu.edu/class/majors/tutorialnotefiles/intext.htm

 

2. Shape is not a property of a substance. Check one: True__ False__

Help if you need it: http://schools.bcsd.com/fremont/5th_sci__matter_properties_of_matter.htm 
Think about it: if liquids and gases take the shape of their container, then shape is a property of the container, not of the liquid or gas. Further, forces (natural and human)change the shape of solids all the time: a piece of rock falls down a mountain and breaks in half, both pieces are still made out of rock!
 

3. What is a chemical property?  Explain and give examples.

Help if you need it:  http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_is_a_chemical_property

4. What is an element?  Give at least 3 examples (you can use symbols):

Help if you need it: http://chemistry.about.com/od/chemistryfaqs/f/element.htm

5. What does a pure element contain?  What is it made up of?

 

6. What is the periodic table?

If you need help, see Links to the right.....

 

7. Most elements are in what state of matter at room temperature?  (pick one):
1. Solid
2. Liquid
3. gas

 

8. How are elements arranged in the periodic table?  (Use this sentence starter):       "Elements are arranged in the Periodic Table based on their...."

 

9. What are the Noble Gases?  Name them here:

______________, ____________, ______________, ____________,

______________, ______________.

 

10. Write the chemical symbols for each of the following elements:

1. f.      Chlorine      _____ g.     Argon          _____ h.     Aluminum   _____ i.       Silicon        _____ j.       Helium       _____

   Carbon      _____
2. Hydrogen   _____
3. Oxygen      _____
4. Nitrogen      _____
5. Sodium       _____