Dissolving 3 Test the following substances to see if they dissolve in water.
Record your results in the table.
salt sand rice
flour coffee sugar
1 Tick the substances that can dissolve in water.
Soluble Insoluble
sand sugar
rice salt
4 Dissolve three soluble substances in warm water.
2 Match the words to their definition.
Time how long it takes for each substance to completely dissolve.
a) Complete the table.
dissolve cannot dissolve in a liquid
Soluble substance Time (seconds)
when a solution is made
soluble from a liquid and one
other substance
b) What other substances do you predict will dissolve in water?
insoluble can dissolve in a liquid
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5 Are the statements true or false? 7 Mrs Khan makes a cup of tea on her lunch break.
Circle your answers. She adds a teaspoon of sugar to her tea and stirs it.
A soluble substance cannot
true false
dissolve in a liquid.
Melting and dissolving Explain why she stirs the tea after adding the sugar.
true false
are the same.
Salt dissolves in water. true false
8 Alex, Jo and Eva have different ideas about why salt cannot be
seen when it dissolves in water.
Sand does not dissolve
true false I think that the
in water.
salt disappears when it
dissolves in water.
6 Diddy carries out an experiment to investigate how temperature Alex
affects the rate at which salt dissolves in water. I think that the salt
turns into water.
I predict that
increasing the temperature
will have no effect on how Substances do not Jo
quickly the salt dissolves. disappear when they dissolve.
They form a solution.
Eva
Do you agree with Diddy’s prediction? Who do you agree with?
What is your prediction? Explain your answer.
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