Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Chemical or Physical Change Study Guide

Chemical Changes Vs Physical Changes Study Guide

1. What is a physical change?

2. What is a chemical change?

3. What is combustibility?

4. What can cause a physical change?

5. What are four signs that determine a chemical change from a physical change?

6. What are four ways that you can prevent a chemical change?

7. List four physical changes? (don’t use examples listed on this page)

8. List four chemical changes? (don’t use examples listed on this page)

9. If a substance changes color unexpectedly, what has most likely happened?

10. Label each process as a physical or chemical change:

a. fogging a mirror with your breath -
b. breaking a bone -
c. mending a broken bone -
d. burning paper -
e. slicing potatoes for fries -
f. mixing sugar with coffee -
g. frying chicken -
h. a nail rusting -
i. paper ripping -
j. wood burning -
k. mixing water and food coloring -
l. food molding (rotting) -
m. writing on paper -

Friday, April 13, 2012

Physical or Chemical sorting

Here is the list if you did not get done in class for the sorting activity;

  1. fresh lemonade
  2. mowing the lawn
  3. boiling water
  4. toast
  5. ice melting
  6. glass breaking
  7. lighting a match
  8. frying eggs
  9. baking a cake
  10. digesting food
  11. roasting marshmallows
  12. fireworks
  13. rusty nails
  14. slicing bread
  15. cracking eggs

Monday, April 9, 2012

Earth Day 2012

Bring in your trash!!!!

Students will be awarded extra credit for bags of recyclable items from now until April 21.
Let's help the Earth and get some extra credit at the same time!