Exploring Our Fluid Earth
Teaching Science as Inquiry
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Matter is anything that takes up space and can be weighed. In other words, matter has volume and mass. There are many different substances, or types of matter, in the universe. Chemists describe matter based on both physical characteristics, such as color or mass, and chemical characteristics, such as how one type of matter interacts with another type of matter. There are many ways to describe and classify matter.
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