Vocabulary
Physical Change
Chemical Change
Physical /Chemical
Properties
100
All atoms of the same type.
What is Element?
100
Is a melted popsicle an example of a physical change?
What is YES? You can melt and refreeze a popsicle and it will still be a popsicle.
100
Is rust an example of a chemical change?
What is YES? You cannot change rust back into the metal is was before; therefore, it is a chemical change.
100
Physical or Chemical Wood rotting
What is Chemical ?
100
You use these to help you identify the physical properties.
What are YOUR SENSES?
200
These are the characterstics of an object and you use your senses to identify them.
What are PHYSICAL PROPERTIES?
200
Is Alka-Seltzer and water an example of a physical change?
What is NO? When you mix Alka-Seltzer and water, bubbles form, which indicates a chemical change as taken place.
200
Name the two indicators of a chemical change.
What are color change, bubbles, temperature change?
200
Physical or Chemical bubbling or fizzing
What is Chemical ?
200
Name 2 physical properties of ice.
What are cold, hard, solid, wet, etc.?
300
Type of change where a new substance is created.
What is a CHEMICAL CHANGE?
300
Name a food that is an example of a physical change.
What is a salad or trail mix?
300
Name a food that is an example of a chemical change and explain why.
What is a cake, because you cannot turn a cake back into the eggs, flour, sugar, etc. that you mixed together?
300
Water boiling to produce steam
What is Physical?
300
Name 2 physical properties of water.
What is liquid, wet, odorless, etc.
400
A type of change where the substance stays the same, but size and shape may change.
What is a PHYSICAL CHANGE?
400
Explain how water could be an example of a physical change.
What is freezing and melting water to and from ice is an example of a physical change?
400
True or False. Turning peanuts to peanut butter is an chemical change.
What is FALSE? To make peanut butter, you grind up roasted peanuts, so nothing new is being created.
400
Vinegar & Baking soda
What is Chemical?
400
Explain how iron fillings and sand can be separated using physical properties.
What is iron is magnetic and sand is not, so you can use a magnetic wand to separate the two substances?
500
Can be separated by physical means
What is a MIXTURE?
500
CHALLENGE (not a quiz question): Explain how the water cycle an example of a physical change.
What is YES, it is a physical change, because water changes from a liquid/solid when it precipitates, to a gas when it evaporates, then forms back into a liquid when it condensates. Then the process repeats again with the same substance, WATER!
500
CHALLENGE (not a quiz question) Explain how a rocket launch is an example of a chemical change.
What is the fuel combines with another chemcial to produce large volumes of a hot gas that propel the rocket into space?
500
Solubility
What is Physical?
500
CHALLENGE (not on quiz). We can separate salt and water using physical properties. What do we call this process of evaproating the water to separate the salt?
What is DESALINATION?
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