Q1.
Powders
(a) Tom had 3 powders.
He added 20g of powder A to jar A.
He added 20g of powder B to jar B.
He added 20g of powder C to jar C.
Each jar contained 100ml of water at the same temperature.
He stirred the water in each jar ten times.
Look at the drawings.
Explain what happened to the powder in jar B when it was added to the water and
stirred.
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(b) Tom left the jars for five minutes.
All of powder A could be seen at the bottom of jar A.
Some of powder C could be seen at the bottom of jar C.
Could the powders in jars A and C be the same material.
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Tick ONE box.
yes no maybe can’t tell
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(c) Explain your answer to part (b).
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Q2. Dissolving
(a) The children have been finding out about materials.
Which of these materials will dissolve in water?
Tick TWO boxes.
wax sugar chalk
salt clay sand
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(b) What should the children do to separate a mixture of sand and sugar?
Choose words from the list to complete the sentences.
The first has been done for you.
evaporate melt condense
freeze stir filter dissolve
First they should add water to the sand and sugar, and .
Then they should ................................... the mixture to remove the sand.
Finally they should ........................... the liquid to leave the sugar behind.
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(c) When a solid is dissolved in water, what is the mixture called?
Tick ONE box.
a filter a sludge a solution a powder
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(d) The children investigated how much sugar dissolved in 100 cm of water at room
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temperature.
This table shows their results.
Number of spoonfuls Does it all
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of dissolve in
sugar 100 cm of water?
3
2 yes
4 yes
6 yes
8 yes
10 no
12 no
Explain why 10 or more spoonfuls of sugar did not all dissolve in 100 cm of water. 3
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(e) The children then investigated how much sugar dissolved in 200 cm of water at 3
room temperature.
How much more sugar would dissolve?
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Q3. Powder
(a) The children grind up some green, sugar-coated chocolate sweets.
They end up with a mixture of powder and some larger pieces.
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Which method should be used to separate the largest pieces of sweets from this
mixture?
Tick ONE box.
sieving evaporating
filtering dissolving
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(b) They add the mixture of powder and small pieces to water in a jar and stir.
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They leave the mixture to stand for two hours.
Colour comes from the mixture. The liquid in the jar turns green.
What process made the liquid turn green?
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(c) After two hours there are still some small brown pieces left in the green liquid.
Which method should be used to separate these brown pieces from the
green liquid?
Tick ONE box.
condensing evaporating
filtering dissolving
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(d) The separated green liquid is heated gently on a radiator until only a green solid is
left in the bottom of the dish.
Explain what has happened to the water.
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(e) How does the time taken for the mixture to dry depend on the temperature of the
radiator?
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Q4. Mixing materials
Seema and Alan are mixing materials.
They put different materials in four clear plastic bags.
They tie the top of each bag.
They watch what happens and record their observations.
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(a) Write the names of the THREE liquids that the children used.
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(ii) ...............................................
(iii) ...............................................
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(b) Look at the table. In one bag dissolving was the only change.
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In which bag was dissolving the only change?
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(c) The mixture in Bag C fizzed and the bag puffed up.
Why did Bag C puff up?
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(d) Three of the mixtures can be separated to get the starting materials back again.
One of the mixtures cannot be separated.
Which bag has a mixture that cannot be separated?
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Q5. Toffee
(a) Adrian and his dad are cooking toffee. The pictures below show how they make the
toffee.
1. Put a metal tray into a 2. Stir sugar into some cold
freezer for an hour. water.
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3 Heat the mixture until it 4 Pour the mixture into the
turns golden brown. cold tray from the freezer
What happens to sugar when it is put into cold water and stirred?
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(b) What happens to some of the water when the mixture is heated?
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(c) The mixture becomes very hot.
Tick ONE box to show what Adrian should measure to find out how hot the mixture
is.
weight temperature
volume time
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(d) Adrian carefully stirs the hot mixture with a wooden spoon.
The handle of the wooden spoon stays cool.
Tick ONE box to explain why the handle of the wooden spoon stays cool.
Wood cannot get hot.
Wood is a poor conductor of heat.
Wood is a hard material.
Wood is a poor insulator of heat.
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(e) Adrian takes the tray out of the freezer. He pours the runny mixture into the metal
tray. He leaves the tray on a table for 10 minutes.
The mixture becomes solid.
Why does the runny mixture become solid?
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Q6. Adding water
(a) Safara wants to find out what happens when solids are mixed with water.
She adds water to four different solids and stirs the mixtures. After 20 minutes she
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draws pictures of her results.
The table below names the four solids that Safara mixed with water.
Which solid was in each beaker?
Write A, B, C or D to complete each row of the table.
Solid Beaker
soil
vitamin tablet
plastic beads
salt
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(b) Explain what happened to the solid in beaker C.
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(c) In which beaker was there a non-reversible change?
Beaker ............................................
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(d) Safara wants to separate the soil from her mixture of soil and water.
Tick ONE box to show which equipment would be best for separating the soil from
the water.
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(e) Safara wants to separate the salt from her mixture of salt and water.
Describe how Safara could get solid salt back from the salt and water mixture.
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