Unit 5 Matter

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1. What are the two general properties of matter and how are they measured?

2. Match the three columns.

Water • • Solids • • Keep its shape and volume.

Carbon dioxide • • Liquids • • Keep its volume but not its shape.
Glass • • Gases • • Do not keep its shape or volume.

3. Look at the arrows. Write the name of the changes they represent.

Solid Liquid Gas

4. Complete the text.

• cannot be separated into other substances. is a pure

substance. are made of two or more substances. Seawater is a mixture of
water and .

5. Write if the sentences are true or false. Then correct the false sentences.

a) Combustion is when the oxygen in the air and water come into contact with iron.
b) When there is a chemical change, matter changes its composition.
c) Combustion is a very slow process of oxidation.

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6. Name three types of chemical changes.

7. After burning paper or wood, the remaining ash weighs less than the original matter. Has some of
its mass disappeared? Explain what has happened.

8. Circle the correct answer.

a) Iron undergoes this process when it comes into contact with oxygen. Melting / Oxidation
b) The chemical change gasoline undergoes when it rapidly comes into contact with oxygen
Combustion / Evaporation
c) Living things help create this chemical process in the absence of oxygen. Oxidation / Fermentation

9. Look at the pictures. Write which one is a pure substance, a homogenous mixture and a
heterogeneous mixture.

a b c

10. Give an example of a food product that we make by using fermentation. Then explain this
chemical process.

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