Friends Boys School

th

9 grade

Science Department
Particles & Solutions

Name: ________________________
1. Define each of the following:

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a)Aqueous Solution:
b)Melting:
c)Evaporation:

2. Sketch the heating curve for

water, between 10oC and
Mark in the temperatures at
water changes state and its
each sloping part of the
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pure
110oC.
which
state for
graph.

3. Can you explain why smells travel faster through a warm room than they do through a
cold room?
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4. If you put a cup of hot tea on an accurate balance, the reading will drop as you watch it.
Why?
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Part II: Choose the correct answer for each of the following:
1.

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When you heat up a solid it takes up more space. Explain why this is the case.
a) All the particles in the solid split apart.
b) The particles in the solid vibrate more, taking up more space.
c) The particles get bigger when they are heated.
2.

If you push on a bicycle pump with your finger over the end, the plunger will go in
even though no gas escapes. If you do this with a liquid, the plunger won't go in.
Why?
a) Gas particles are less energetic than particles in a liquid.
b) There is more space between gas particles so they can be pushed
together. There is less space between the particles in a liquid.
c) The liquid turns to a solid.

3.

Perfume particles travel through the air at hundreds of kilometers per hour. When you
open a bottle of perfume it takes a long time for the smell to move across the room.
Why does it take so long for the smell to travel?
a) The perfume particles travel randomly.
b) The perfume is not strong enough.
c) The perfume particles are cold.

4.

You can smell concentrated hydrochloric acid. Use your knowledge of particles to
explain why.
a) Hydrochloric acid boils at room temperature
b) Hydrochloric acid is a gas which has a smell
c) Hydrochloric acid gives off particles of hydrogen chloride gas which can be
sensed by cells in your nose.

5.

In which solution will a seed crystal cause excess solute to precipitate?

a) unsaturated solution
b) saturated solution
c) supersaturated solution

6.

When liquids dissolve in other liquids, the liquid present in the quantity is
considered the solvent.
a) smallest
b) largest
c) heaviest
d) lightest

7.

What does saturated mean?

a) When a liquid has dissolved all of a substance that it can
b) When a liquid has dissolved exactly 50% all of a substance that it can

8.

Sugar dissolved in water is an example of a solution.

a) True
b) False

9.

Liquids that will dissolve in each other are called miscible.

a) True
b) False

10. When a liquid has dissolved all of a substance that it can means that the liquid is ...
a) saturated
b) unsaturated
11. What is an example of a frequently used solvent ?
a) iron
b) water
c) oxygen

12. Sand in water is an example of a ...

a) solution
b) suspension
13. Solutions do not normally separate into solute and solvent when left standing
overnight.
a) True
b) False
14. Saturated solutions have more solute than unsaturated solutions.
a) False
b) True
15. Solvents dissolve solutes.
a) True

b) False

16. Pick the correct list:

a) Solvent = dissolving agent,
b) Solute = dissolving agent,

Solute = what gets dissolved

Solvent = what gets dissolved

17. What are the particles called that does not dissolve and that settles at the bottom?
a) diluted particles
b) agitated particles
c) suspended particles
18. What happens to particles in a suspension if you let it stand undisturbed?
a) it precipitates
b) it evaporates
c) it dissolves
19. What happens when you add solute to an unsaturated solution?
a) the solute settles at the bottom
b) the solute will dissolve
20. When solvents (like water) are hot, they can normally dissolve more solutes than if the
solvents are cold.
a) True
b) False

Good Luck
Anan W. Barghouthy