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5. Meera poured 7 cm3 of water into a measuring cylinder.
She poured 7 cm3 of melted wax into another measuring cylinder.
She put both measuring cylinders into a freezer for 24 hours.
10 10
cm3 cm3
8 8
water water
before freezing 6 6 after freezing
4 4
2 2
10 10
cm3 cm3
8 8
wax wax
before freezing 6 6 after freezing
4 4
2 2
(a) Look at the measuring cylinders.
What happened to the volume of the water and the wax after freezing?
the volume of water ________________________
5a
the volume of wax __________________________
1 mark
(b) The measuring cylinders were taken out of the freezer and left in a
room at 20 C.
Frozen water melts at 0 C.
Wax melts at 53 C.
What would the physical state of each substance be at 20 C?
5b Choose from gas or liquid or solid.
1 mark
water ______________________________
5b
wax _______________________________
1 mark
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(c) Meera added blue copper sulphate crystals to some water in a beaker.
The copper sulphate dissolved in the water.
blue copper
sulphate crystals
water
before adding after adding
copper sulphate copper sulphate
(i) Give one way Meera could see that the copper sulphate had
dissolved in the water.
5ci
___________________________________________________________________
1 mark
(ii) Give one way that she could get the copper sulphate to dissolve
more quickly.
5cii
___________________________________________________________________
1 mark
(d) Meera poured some of the copper sulphate solution into a dish.
She left it in a warm room for a week.
copper sulphate solution
A week later there was a blue solid but no liquid in the dish.
(i) What happened to the water in the copper sulphate solution?
5di
___________________________________________________________________
1 mark
(ii) What was the blue solid left in the dish?
5dii
______________________________
1 mark
maximum 7 marks
Total
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