Unit 2 Vocabulary 6th Grade Science

Brittle easily cracked, snapped, or broken; fragile

Conductivity ability to conduct electrical current

Density degree of consistency measured by the quantity of mass per unit volume.

Dullness having very little depth of color; lacking in richness or intensity of color.

Ductility ability to be stretched into a wire without breaking.

Insulator a substance or device that does not readily conduct electricity.

Luster how the surface of a mineral appears when it reflects light (e.g., shiny or dull)

Magnetism the property of attraction displayed by magnets

Malleability ability to be formed or shaped under pressure (e.g., metals hammered or rolled into thin sheets)

Mass the actual amount of matter that is contained in an object.

Matter the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed. Has mass and takes up space!!!

Metalloids substances that exhibit some properties of metals and nonmetals

Metals substances that have the physical properties of luster, conductivity, and malleability; may appear in all three states of matter

Nonmetals substances that have the physical properties of being dull, insulators, and brittle; may appear in all three states of matter

Temperature- is a measure of how hot or cold something is; thermal energy

Volume the amount of space that a substance or object occupies

Water Displacement the weight or the volume of fluid displaced by a floating or submerged body.