Separating Mixtures

James wants to separate the salt from the water in his glass of salt water. What separation method should James use?

• Magnets

• Evaporation

• Filter

• Using his hands

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What item could a magnet separate from a mixture of garbage?

• Old metal fork

• An apple core

• Pieces of paper

• A juice bottle

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What mixture could you use this tool to best separate that mixture?

• Sugar and Salt

• Sand and rocks

• Apples and grapes

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The air around is a mixture of gases.

• True

• False

Lemonade is a special mixture called a 

• substance
• solution
• plasma
• ingredient

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A solution is a mixture of one or more substances _________ evenly into another substance.

• dissolved
• evaporated
• carried
• split

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Two or more substances mingled together, but not chemically combined are known as a

• residue

• compound

• distillate

• mixture

Sand and gravel may be separated from each other through using..

• a filter funnel
• a sieve
• an evaporating basin
• a distillation

Which one of the following techniques would best be used to separate soil and water?

• Decanting
• distillation
• Filtration
• Chromatography

Which one of the following would you use to separate sand from iron filings?

• a bar magnet
• filter paper
• chromatography paper
• alum

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