WHAT IS MATTER?

MATTER is everywhere. It is all around us! Anything that takes up space and has some weight is called MATTER. Everything you can touch is made of matter. If it is made of anything, that anything is matter.
 
Matter has many properties. PHYSICAL properties of MATTER are how you would describe the matter. (MATTER can have different weights, melting points, boiling points, freezing points, color or smells.) There are also CHEMICAL properties of matter. Chemical properties are the way MATTER combines with each other in reactions. Chemistry is the study of how matter reacts and combines with other matter. Matter can change in two major ways, physically and chemically.