What matter is made of

Element:a basic building block of matter; a pure substance that cannot be broken down into anything simple

Compound: a chemical combination of two or more elements into a single substance

Atom: the smallest unit of an element that still has the properties of the element

Proton: a particle with a positive charge in the nucleos of an atom

Neutron: an uncharged particle in the nucleus of an atom

Electron: a particle with a negative charge moving around the nucleus of an atom. Nucleus: the dense center part of an atom Molecule: a group of more than one atom joined toghether that acts like a single particle