SUBJECT Lower Secondary Science Year 9
TOPIC Forensic Chemistry
ASSIGNMENT Eight
STUDENT NAME
FEEDBACK AND REFLECTION:
I have read the feedback on my last assignment carefully.
I have considered whether any of that feedback is relevant to this assignment.
One thing I will try to do either the same or differently in this assignment as a result of my previous
feedback is: _______________________________________________________________________
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ASSIGNMENT GUIDANCE:
You should complete this assignment by carrying out Practical 3: Corrosion on this sheet and
then handwriting in black ink both the Practical 3: Corrosion and the assignment questions that
follow on, unless you have obtained specific permission through your SPM to submit typed work.
Then scan it in and submit it, as a single document.
This is not a timed assignment. We estimate that this assignment may take you between 1 and 2
hours for the practical, and between 40 and 60 minutes for the assignment itself. However, if you
need to take longer, then please do so.
Make sure you write your full name clearly in the box at the top of this page.
In order to complete this assignment, you will need a calculator, ruler, your coursebook and
notes.
LS SCIENCE YEAR 9 ASSIGNMENT 08
LS Science Assignment Eight
PRACTICAL: CORROSION
What conditions affect rusting the most?
You may have learned in Module 5 of Year 8 about the conditions needed for the rusting of iron,
specifically the need for both water and oxygen. In this practical you will investigate what conditions
cause iron to rust the most, and what conditions are best at preventing iron from rusting.
Apparatus
Iron nails – make sure they are definitely iron, and not galvanized
Polystyrene cups or some other vessel to hold the nails
Oil
Petroleum jelly, or Vaseline
Method
You should design your own experiment for this practical. You should think about the following: (you
can fill in the answers in Question 1, Variables too)
What is your independent variable? (Hint: this is one you will not be able to measure
like you usually would.)
What is your dependent variable and how will you measure it?
What other variables should be controlled to make your method more valid? How will
you control them?
How will you make sure your results are reliable?
Prediction: what do you think will happen?
Here are some recommendations for how to treat the nails, although you can choose your own way.
Iron nail in air
Iron nail in water
Iron nail in boiled water with a layer of oil on the top (this excludes oxygen)
Iron nail in salt water
Iron nail coated in petroleum jelly in water
1. This question covers the practical.
a. What is your independent variable?
(Hint: this is one you will not be able to measure like you usually would.)
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(1 mark)
b. What is your dependent variable and how will you measure it?
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(1 mark)
c. What other variables should be controlled to make your method more valid? How will you
control them?
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(2 marks)
d. How will you make sure your results are reliable?
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(1 mark)
e. Prediction: what do you think will happen?
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(1 mark)
Results
f. Use this space to draw a table in which to record your results. Look back in the method to
remind yourself of the variables, and how many readings you will need to take.
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(3 marks)
Conclusions
g. What have you learned from your experiment? Did your results agree with your prediction?
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(1 mark)
h. What could you have done to make your results more reliable and your method more valid?
This could be where you list more complex lab equipment that you would use if you had it.
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(1 mark)
(Total 11 marks)
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FORENSIC CHEMISTRY
2. The drawings below show six objects found in Sophie’s garden. The objects are all made of
different materials as shown.
a. Which two objects shown above are made of rock?
1. ____________________________
2. ____________________________
(1 mark)
b. Write two of the objects shown above which are made of metal.
1. ____________________________
2. ____________________________
(1 mark)
c.
i. A gas in the air reacts with iron to make it rusty. Give the name of this gas.
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(1 mark)
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ii. What could you do to an iron gate to protect it from this gas in the air?
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(1 mark)
d. Sophie tests each material with a magnet. Which two materials are attracted to the
magnet? Tick two correct boxes.
aluminium slate
iron plastic
marble steel
(2 marks)
(Total 6 marks)
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3. Gary wanted to find out if some food colourings contained a banned food dye. He put a drop of
each food colouring and the banned food dye onto some special paper. He hung the paper in a
beaker of water.
After 10 minutes, the banned food dye and some of the dyes from the food colourings had
moved up the paper. Gary’s results are shown below.
a. Gary wrote the labels on the paper in pencil. Why should he not write them in ink?
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(1 mark)
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b. Look at Gary’s results. The different dyes in some of the food colourings had moved up the
paper.
i. Which food colouring contained the banned dye?
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(1 mark)
ii. Which food colouring contained the most dyes?
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(1 mark)
c. Which food colouring did not dissolve in the water?
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(1 mark)
d. Which method did Gary use to separate the dyes? Tick the correct box.
chromatography distillation
evaporation filtration
(1 mark)
(Total 5 marks)
4.
a. Sasha placed small samples of four different metals on a spotting tile. She added drops of
calcium nitrate solution to each metal.
Sasha repeated the experiment with:
- fresh samples of the four metals and copper nitrate solution
- fresh samples of the four metals and iron nitrate solution
Will a reaction take place when each of the metals is added to each of the solutions? Use the
reactivity series below to help you.
most reactive calcium
magnesium
aluminium
zinc
iron
lead
least reactive copper
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In the table below:
- place a tick to show that a reaction took place
- place a cross to show that no reaction took place.
Two have been done for you.
metal
salt solution
copper iron magnesium zinc
calcium nitrate
copper nitrate x
iron nitrate x
(3 marks)
b. Three pairs of chemicals are listed below. A reaction only takes place with two of the pairs.
Draw a line from each reaction to the correct result. Draw only three lines.
pair of chemicals result
calcium carbonate + hydrochloric acid no reaction
a chloride, carbon dioxide and
magnesium + hydrochloric acid
water are formed
a chloride and hydrogen are
copper + hydrochloric acid
formed
(2 marks)
(Total 5 marks)
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5. Lavender oil is a perfume obtained from lavender flowers. Steam at 100℃ is passed through the
flowers in the apparatus below.
Water vapour and lavender oil vapour pass down a copper tube towards a separator.
a.
i. The lavender flowers are heated in a container with a sealed lid. Why must the lid be
sealed?
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(1 mark)
ii. What would happen if the container did not have a pressure-release valve?
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(1 mark)
b. Lavender oil vapour and water vapour cool as they pass down the copper tube. A mixture of
lavender oil and water collects in the separator.
i. What is the change in the physical state of both lavender oil vapour and water vapour as
they cool?
from _____________________ to ____________________
(1 mark)
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ii. Look at the separator:
How does this show that the water is denser than lavender oil?
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(1 mark)
c. Rosie poured some lavender oil into an oil burner. She heated it with a candle.
The oil changed state.
Which diagram represents this change of state? Write the letter.
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(1 mark)
(Total 5 marks)
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6. Chen investigates the rate of reaction between calcium carbonate and dilute hydrochloric acid.
Look at the word equation for the reaction.
Look at the equipment Chen uses.
a. Predict what happens to the mass reading on the balance during the reaction.
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Explain your answer.
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(2 marks)
b. Chen finds that the rate of the reaction is greater when he uses powdered calcium carbonate
rather than lumps of calcium carbonate.
Explain why using the particle model.
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(2 marks)
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c. Describe one safety precaution Chen must take during his investigation.
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Explain why he takes this safety precaution.
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(2 marks)
(Total 6 marks)
7. Ahmed makes some copper sulfate crystals.
He adds an excess of copper oxide to warm dilute sulfuric acid in a beaker.
After the reaction the beaker contains copper sulfate solution and the excess copper oxide.
Copper oxide is insoluble in water.
Describe how Ahmed makes copper sulfate crystals from the contents of the beaker.
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(Total 3 marks)
TOTAL FOR ASSIGNMENT 41 MARKS
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