Vocabulary
Physical Change
Chemical Change
100

When a substance turns into a different substance with new chemical properties.

What is a chemical change

100

Name one example of a physical change

Ice melting, cookie crumbling, paper ripping...

100

Name 1 example of a chemical change.

Burning paper, burning wood, frying an egg....

200

A type of change that cannot be undone or reversed.

What is irreversible
200

How is a physical change different from a chemical change?

A physical change does not create a new substance while a chemical change does.

200

Is cooking food a chemical change? Why or why not?

Yes. The color changes permanently, you cannot change the food back to its original form.

300

A change that affects physical properties without changing the substance.

What is a physical change

300

Which of the following is a physical change: melting ice, burning wood, or mixing baking soda and vinegar? 

Melting ice

300

Which one of the following is a chemical change:

Cutting a slice of bread

Blow drying your wet hair

Silverware rusting

Silverware rusting

400

A substance that changes color or appearance during a chemical reaction.

What is an indicator

400

Name 3 examples of physical changes.

Chopping wood, cutting a rock, a candle melting

400

True or false:

Acid rain damaging a marble statue is a physical change.

False- this is chemical. The statue is damaged and cannot be reversed back.

500

A scientific principle stating that matter

cannot be created or destroyed in a chemical

reaction; it can only change forms.

What is the Law of Conservation of Matter

500

Can all physical changes be reversed? Why or why not?

No, for example cutting grass or chopping wood-you cannot change the substance back into its original form

500

What are 3 examples of chemical changes? Explain why they are chemical.

An object rusting, fireworks exploding, burning an object or food....