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Separating Mixtures

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name

Class

Date

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

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

Old metal fork

An apple core

Pieces of paper

A juice bottle

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

Sugar and Salt

Sand and rocks

Apples and grapes

The air around is a mixture of gases.

True

False

Lemonade is a special mixture called a

substance

solution

plasma

ingredient

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

dissolved

evaporated

carried

split

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

10.

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

a bar magnet

filter paper

chromatography paper

alum

11.

If you spilled nails in a sandbox, what separation tool/method could you use to clean out the sandbox so it would be safe for children to play in?

Filter

Screen

Magnet

Evaporation

12.

The best way to separate trail mix would be:

filter

by hand

sieve

evaporation

13.

This type of paper allows liquid to pass through it. What tool is it?

sieve

filter

14.

If I pour sand and water onto a filter, what will happen?

water and sand will go through the filter

sand will get caught in the filter, water will pass through

both sand and water will get caught in the filter

15.

Blue Color: Chemical or Physical Property

Chemical Property

Physical Property

16.

Flammability (burns): Chemical or Physical Property

Chemical Property

Physical Property

17.

Solubility (dissolves): Chemical or Physical Property

Chemical Property

Physical Property

18.

Which is NOT a physical property?

odor

reacts with acid

ability to conduct electric current

hardness

19.

Physical properties are

properties that can be observed without changing the identity of the substance

properties that describe how a substance changes into a completely different substance

20.

Is sharpening a pencil a physical or chemical change?

Physical

Chemical

21.

Which statement is true about compounds?

a pure substance where two or more elements are chemically combined

a homogenous mixture of 2 or more elements

a pure substance containing only one type of atom

a heterogeneous mixture of 2 or more elements chemically combined

22.

What does this illustrate

Elements

Compunds

Mixture of Elements and Compunds

Mixture of Compounds

23.

What does this pic illustrate?

Element

Mixture of Compunds

Mixture of elemets

Compounds

24.

Two characteristics of Matter are:

Has volume and is energy

Has mass and is energy

Has mass and volume

Doesn't take up space and is not energy

25.

These can only be separated by chemical means.

element

compound

mixture

stuff

26.

These contain only one kind of atom.

element

compound

mixture

water

27.

Water is a ___________.

element

mixture

compound

28.

The things in a mixture always retain their........

smell properties

physical and chemical properties

shape

color

29.

Elements can be broken down into simpler substances.

false

true

sometimes

30.

Compounds contain a _____ set of elements.

fixed

random

sweet

inaccurate

100 %

Separating Mixtures

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

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