More about Dissolving & Reversible /Irreversible Changes Revision Worksheet (4)
Name:_________________________________ YEAR 6... Date..............
1. Choose words from the brackets and fill in the blanks .
( solution, reversible, sugar, insoluble, soluble, cannot be changed back, can be changed back)
i) A reversible change _____________________________________
ii) An irreversible change ___________________________________
iii) Boiling, evaporating, condensing and dissolving are all examples of ___________ changes.
iv) Some substances dissolve in water to make a ____________.
v) Substances like salt and _________ that dissolve in water are called _____________ substances.
vi) Substances that don’t dissolve in water like sand are called ___________ substances.
2. Draw lines to match the following:
Insoluble Letting something warm up until it melts (turns from a solid into a liquid)
emulsion When water is evaporated and then condensed to produce pure water.
Filtering A liquid changing into a gas.
Solvent A liquid which has a gas mixed with it, but the gas has not dissolved.
Dissolve A substance which cannot dissolve (mix in a liquid)
Distillation When liquids do not mix together completely. Small droplets of one liquid are formed
in the other.
Solution When two or more substances are mixed together.
Condensation When a substance is pure there are no other substances mixed with it.
Pure Mixing of a substance in a liquid. It seems to disappear but it stays in the liquid.
Evaporation Separating un dissolved substances from a liquid by pouring it through filter paper.
Soluble The liquid in the solution
Solute The mixture formed when a substance dissolves in it
Mixture A gas changing into a liquid.
Liquid foam A substance which can dissolve (mix in a liquid)
thaw Cooling something down until it becomes a solid.
freeze A limit to how much solid will dissolve in a liquid(in terms of ‘no much room’)
Saturated solution The substance that dissolves.
3. Linda had a piece of red sandstone. She hammered it into pieces and then ground them into a powder using a pestle
and a mortar.
She put the powder into a measuring cylinder with water and shook the mixture.
The contents settled.
Linda said her results showed that sandstone is a mixture of
two substances.
How could she tell, from her results, that
sandstone is a mixture of substances?
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4. Seema and Alan are mixing materials. They put different materials in four clear plastic [Link] tie the top of each
bag. They watch what happens and record their observations.
(a) Write the names of the THREE liquids that the children used.
(i) ............................................... (ii) ............................................... (iii).......................................
(b) In one bag dissolving was the only change. In which bag was dissolving the only change?
(c) The mixture in Bag C fizzed and the bag puffed up.
Why did Bag C puff up?...........................................................................................
Three of the mixtures can be separated to get the starting materials back again. One of the
mixtures cannot be separated.
(d) Which bag has a mixture that cannot be separated?........................................
5. State whether the changes are reversible or irreversible.
Gas burns in a cooker
Water in a freezer changes to a solid.
Salt crystals disappear when you stir them in warm water.
Soft clay turns hard when you heat it.
A white powder fizzes when you put lemon juice on it.
Candle wax melting
6. Jane puts some green powder into water. Bubbles appear in the water and the powder disappears. The water turns
green. Jane says that this is an irreversible change.
i) Which observation shows Jane that this change is irreversible?
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ii) Explain why?........................................................................................................................................................................
iii) Write one reversible change that is caused by heating?.....................................................................................................
iv) Explain why?.......................................................................................................................................................................
7. i)What is the material that is burning? ………………………………………..
ii) What new materials are made?................................., …………………………., ………………………… .
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8. Observe the graph and answer the following questions.
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a) --------------- g of solid ‘P’ dissolves in 100cm³ of water at 60oC.
b) --------------- g of solid ‘P ’in 200g of water at 60oC.
c) Alan said , according to the graph solid ‘P’ is three
times more than ‘Y’ at 100oC.
Is Alan right? Explain your answer. Q
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9. Diana was finding out how quickly 5g of sugar dissolved in water at different temperatures. The line graph shows her
results.
i) One of her results is probably wrong.
Circle this result. Time
ii) How does the temp. of the water affect the speed
taken of dissolving?........................................
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speed of dissolving?
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iii) Predict how long 5g of sugar will take to (seco
dissolve at 5°C . …………………… seconds. nds)
iv) What would happen to the speed of
dissolving if Diana had used sugar which was
crushed into smaller pieces?...................................................
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10. Nathan did an experiment to see if some solids all
dissolved equally well in water. He added 1g of a solid at a
time until no more of the solid would dissolve. The table
shows his results.
i)Write out a step by step instructions to tell Solid Amount that
someone how to do Nathan’s experiment. dissolved in 20cm³ of
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Sodium bicarbonate 1
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sugar 40
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salt 7
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ii) Explain why this is a fair test. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
iii) How do you think Nathan could tell that no more of
a solid could dissolve? ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..
iv)Draw a bar line of his results. Label the axes.
v) Do all the solids dissolve equally well?
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vi)Put the solids in order of how they dissolved.
Start with the one that dissolved best.
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vii)How much Epsom salt can dissolve in 20cm³?
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viii)How much Epsom salt do you think dissolved in
50 cm³of water?........................................................................
ix)Explain how you worked this answer.
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11. .Fiona was trying to separate a mixture of salt,water and gravel.
Here is the apparatus she used.
i) What is this way of separating things called? ……………………………………………………
ii) What will collect in the conical flask? …………………………………………………………
iii) What will collect on the filter? Explain. …………………………………………………………………………………………………..
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Ahmed is investigating what happened to the
mass of a candle as it burnt.
Mass of
The graph shows his results.
candle 65
i)Is the burning of a candle a reversible (grams)
change?.............................................. 64
ii) What happens to the mass of the candle as it 63
burns? …………………………………………….. 3
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iii) What was the mass of the candle at the start
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of Ahmed’s investigation?
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120
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……………………………………………………………………..… Time (minutes)
iv) One of Ahmed’s measurements is probably
wrong. Put a circle around this measurement on 4
the graph.
