Mixtures and Solutions

Students conduct an investigation with breakfast cereal. The first four steps of the students’ investigation are in the table shown. The students are trying to determine the presence of which substance in the cereal?

• sugar

• iron

• salt

• wheat

To break down and spread evenly in a liquid-

• dissolve

• sink

• evaporate

A combination of two or more substances where each keeps their own properties and can be easily separated-

• solution

• mixture

• solute

Physical properties are appearances of an object.

• True

• False

Tags

NGSS.5-PS1-3

Cutting, folding, melting all cause a-

• magnetic change

• electrical change

• physical change

• chemical change

Sand dissolves in water.

• True

• False

One substance dissolved evenly in another-

• solution

• mixture

• ingredient

Sugar is not soluble.

• True

• False

If a substance is soluble it-

• dissolves in water

• does not dissolve in water

Lemon juice-

• floats in water

• is not soluble in water

• is soluble in water