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Test: Mixtures
1. Look at these words:
Melting
evaporation
condensation freezing
Which word best describes the change when:
a ice turns to water?
b water appears on a window?
c soup dries up on the stove?
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2. Which clothes will dry quickest? Why?
3. Which sugar will dissolve quickest? Why?
4. Write down each word with its correct meaning:
Word Meaning
Saturated
forms when a substance dissolves in a liquid.
Soluble
a liquid which dissolves a substance.
Solution
no more substance will dissolve.
Dissolved
a substance which dissolves.
Solvent
a substance seems to have disappeared into a liquid.
5. A woman spills ink on her dress. The dress is made of nylon.
Look at this table.
Liquid Nylon Ink
A soluble soluble
B insoluble insoluble
C insoluble soluble
D soluble insoluble
a Which liquid should she use to remove the stain?
b Explain your answer.
6. Look at the following ways of separating mixtures.
a Which way would you use to turn salty water into pure water?
b Which way would you use to remove mud from lake water?
c Which ways use heat to help separate the mixture?
d Which ways depend upon evaporation of a liquid?
7. You are given a white powder. It dissolves in water. You are going to
make a large crystal of the solid. Complete the following instruction sheet.
Title of experiment:
Equipment needed:
White powder
Water Stirring rod
Bunsen burner
Beaker
Tripod stand
Heatproof mat
Instructions to follow:
8. The following steps can be used to separate salt from rock salt, but they
are all jumbled up. Write the steps in the correct order beginning with:
C Collect the rock salt.
9. Chromatography can be used to show that black ink is a mixture of
different colours. Describe how you would do this experiment. Begin your
description with the sentence:
‘Take the pen with the black ink and a piece of chromatography paper...’
10. This is a diagram of the water cycle. Explain what is happening to the
water at A, B, C and D.
11. The diagram shows the results of a chromatography experiment. Fine inks
were compared: A, B, C, D and E.
a Which ink is a mixture of different colours?
b Which two inks are the same?
c Which ink is not soluble in the solvent?
12. A student looks at a microscope slide through a microscope. There is a
clear liquid in it. She sees this:
She looks at the slide two minutes later. She sees this:
Complete her report of the experiment.
Title: Making ofsugar.
Equipment:
Solution of sugar Microscope slide Microscope What I did:
I put two drops of sugar _ on a slide. I saw
on the slide. I waited and then looked at the slide again.
Result:
I observed
which I have drawn below
Extension questions
13. You are given two different salt solutions.
You put a crystal of salt into each solution.
After one day:
the crystal in A has disappeared, and
the crystal in B has become bigger.
Explain both results.
14. Look at the diagram.
a From the diagram, write the instructions for the experiment.
b From the diagram write down the result of the experiment.
c What does this experiment tell you about the solubility of wax?
15. Four substances called A, B, C and D were shaken with water. This is what
happened.
The substances were then shaken with alcohol. This is what happened.
Complete this table.
Substance Is it soluble in water? Is it soluble in alcohol?
C
Answers
1. a melting;
b condensation;
c evaporation
2. C, three factors: warm, windy, dry
3. A, two factors: powder, stirring
4. saturated: no more substances will dissolve
soluble: a substance which dissolves
solution: forms when a substance dissolves in a liquid
dissolved: a substance seems to have disappeared into a liquid
solvent: a liquid which dissolves a substance
5. a C
b two key points: removes stain, does not damage dress
6. a distilling
b filtering
c boiling and distilling
d boiling and distilling
7. a making a crystal
b three key points: heat water, dissolve as much powder as possible, cool
slowly
8. C, F, D, B, A, E
9. four key points:
(i)put a dot of ink about 2 cm from one end of the chromatography
paper
(ii) put about 1 cm (less than 2 cm) liquid/solvent in a named container,
e.g. beaker/test-tube
(iii) place paper in container, dot at bottom
(iv) allow solvent to rise past the dye
10. A evaporating; B rising into sky/forming clouds; C
condensing/condensation; D flowing into sea
11. a D; b B and E; c C
12. crystals; solution; nothing; 2 minutes; the crystals of sugar appeared
13. solution A was not saturated, and so the crystal dissolved; solution B was
saturated, and so the crystal grew larger
14. a (i) put some water in a test-tube containing wax, then put some turps
in a test-tube containing wax
(ii) place both test-tubes in hot water (for 5 mins)
b wax dissolves in hot turps
c wax is soluble in turps, not in water or
wax is not soluble in all liquids or
wax will dissolve in some liquids only
15.
substance water soluble alcohol soluble
A yes no
B yes yes
C no no
D no yes
