You can see matter makes up the walls of your house and your classroom. Matter is large and matter is small. These small parts of the carrot are called atoms. Anything you see and can feel is made of atoms. All atoms are too small to be seen with the naked eye or even a microscope, although there are some new types of microscopes that are now able to see larger atoms such as gold.
All matter is the same because all matter is made up of atoms.
Matter is also different because objects can be made up of different kinds of atoms. Gold is made of one kind of atom-gold atoms. Salt is made up of two different kinds of atoms-sodium atoms and chloride atoms. Properties of Matter Remember all objects take up space and have mass. You use your sense of taste and smell to tell the difference between spinach and an orange.