7H End of Unit Test

Name Class

1 a Which sentence describes what a mixture is? Tick the best answer.
Lots of things jumbled together which cannot be separated.
Just one thing by itself.
Lots of things jumbled together which can be separated.
One thing which can be split up into smaller bits.
[1 mark]
2 Katie has a cold. Her dad makes her a hot lemon drink using some yellow
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powder. He mixes the powder with some hot water. The powder dissolves in H
the hot water.
a Put a ring round the word that best describes the water.
solute solvent soluble solitude [1 mark]
b Put a ring round the word which best describes the powder.
solute solvent solution insoluble [1 mark]
c Put a ring round the two words which best describe the hot lemon drink.
solvent solution cloudy yellow insoluble colourless
[2 marks]
Katie tastes the drink and finds that it is not sweet enough.
She wants to add some sugar.
d The mass of the water was measured before any sugar was added.
The mass was then measured again after all the sugar had dissolved.
Tick the box which says what happens to the mass.
The mass is the same as before the sugar was added.
The mass is more than it was before the sugar was added.
The mass is less than it was before the sugar was added.
It is impossible to predict what will happen to the mass.
[1 mark]

3 This product is used to remove marks left

by sticky labels.
a Why is it difficult to remove sticky
marks using water?

[1 mark]
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b Why might it be a bad idea to use this spray on polished wood?

[1 mark]

4 a What does filtering do? Tick the best answer.

It separates dissolved substances from a solution.
It separates insoluble substances from a solution.
It separates different kinds of solid particles.
7 It separates different kinds of liquid from each other.

H [1 mark]

5 a Water is not usually ‘pure’. What is usually in the water that makes it impure?

[1 mark]
b Fill in the gaps in these sentences.
A dissolved solid can be removed from a solution by
the water. Brine is a solution of dissolved in water.
[2 marks]

c Fill in the missing labels on this diagram

[1 mark]

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6 a What is ‘pure’ water?

[1 mark]
b Distillation is made up of two steps. Which is the best description of the two
steps? Tick the best answer.
evaporation then condensation
filtration then evaporation
condensation then evaporation
condensation then filtration
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c Tick the correct boxes to show which mixtures can be separated by distillation. H
The first one has been done for you.

Mixture can be separated cannot be separated

by distillation by distillation
Sand from a mixture of sand and sawdust ✓
Water from a mixture of sugar and water
Alcohol from a mixture of alcohol and water

[2 marks]
d This diagram shows the apparatus used for distillation.

What does the piece of apparatus labelled X do?

[1 mark]

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7 a The method used to separate the different colours in inks is called

[1 mark]
b The diagram shows the result when the different colours are separated from
an ink.
Purple

Blue

7 PURPLE INK
H Look at the diagram carefully.
What colours did the ink contain?
[1 mark]
c The ink was placed at the centre of the filter paper. How did the
colours get to the positions shown?

[1 mark]
d Biro ink does not dissolve in water. How could you find out which
different colours are in black biro ink?

[1 mark]
e Describe one way in which chromatography is useful.

[1 mark]

8 Samina made a cup of tea and put a lot of sugar in it. She forgot to drink it,
and when she came back it was cold. There was a lot of sugar in the bottom
of the cup that had not been there before, and it would not dissolve even
when she stirred it.
Explain what has happened to the sugar in Samina’s tea.

[2 marks]

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