Chapter 5 Quick Quiz

1 What is the name for a liquid that dissolves a solid?

2 What is the name for a solid that dissolves in a liquid?

3 True or false? ‘All solutions are transparent liquids.’

4 Solution A is more concentrated than solution B.

Which solution has less solute in each litre?

5 When you add sugar to hot tea, does it melt or

dissolve?

6 Name a common solvent.

7 What happens to the particles that make up salt when

it dissolves in water?

8 What dissolves salt better; hot water or cold water?

9 True or false? ‘Filtering can be used to separate out the

substances in a solution.’

10 In distillation, what is collected at the end; a solid or a

liquid?

11 True or false? ‘Chromatography is a way of processing

photographic films.’

12 If freezing is the opposite of melting, what is the

opposite of boiling?

13 True or false? ‘For any pure substance, melting and

freezing happen at the same temperature.’

14 What happens to the boiling point of water when the

pressure is raised?

15 What has more energy; a liquid or a gas?

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