SCIENCE – CHANGES IN MATERIAL (d) Give the reason?

(e) Does rusting give good or bad effects on materials?

1. What is a reversible change? Non-reversible change?
(f) Give the reason for answer in (e)?
2. Are physical changes reversible? Why?
9. We observe that dead matter and animal waste are decomposing?
3. A new material is produced in chemical change. Is the new material can be
(a) Mention 2 organisms act as decomposers?
returned into original material? State your reason.
(b) How does the decomposer do the decomposition?
4. (a) When you are dissolving sugar into the water, is it a physical or chemical
(c) Decomposition is irreversible changes. Why?
change? Why?
(d) What factors support the process of decomposition?
(b) How to get the sugar from the water?
(e) What materials are returned to the environment when the dead matter and
5. (a) When you make the dough from water and flour, is it a physical or
animal waste decompose?
chemical change? Why?
10. Some changes carry good effects and bad effects to the materials. Cross out
(b) Can we separate flour from the water?
the changes that bring bad effect and circle the changes that bring good
6. Look at the following processes, circle the process of reversible change and
effect.
cross out the irreversible change.
(a) Rusting of water tap (f) Burning fossil fuel for cars
(a) Mixing salt and hot water (f) Heating the egg
(b) Rotting leaves in the garden (g) Mould on the bread
(b) Melting butter for cooking (g) Mixing cement with water
(c) Milk goes sour in hot weather (h) Corrosion on car’s body part
(c) Burning the charcoal (h) Evaporating water
(d) Rooting wood fence (i) Decomposing faeces by bacteria
(d) Freeze the jelly (i) Drying the clothes under the sun
(e) Making biodegradable plastic (j) Burning the forest into farming land.
(e) Burning a spoon of sugar (j) Cooling the candle wax
11. Rusting on some materials bring harmful effects on materials. What are some
7. When you leave the bread for some days, you’ll find the bread is rotting.
ways to prevent metal from rusting?
(a) What factors causes rotting bread?
12. Why does the composers have important role in balancing the environment?
(b) Is it reversible or non reversible change?
13. Are ants, maggot and beetles decomposers? State your reason.
(c) Give 3 examples things that can be rotting?
14. Observe the decomposition and rusting
8. When we observe the iron fence, we find a layer of reddish brown substance
(a) What are the similarities between them?
called rust.
(b) What are the differences between them?
(a) What factors cause rusting?
(c) What type of materials experience rusting?
(b) How does rust form on the iron fence over a period of time?
(d) What is the effect of rusting on these materials?
(c) Is it reversible or irreversible change?
15. (a) When you mix baking soda and vinegar, do you find some changes, such
as in colour and temperature?
(b) Is it chemical or physical change? Explain.
(c) Is a new material formed?
16. State TRUE or FALSE
(a) A new material is formed in physical change __________
(b) The temperature is changed when we add baking __________
soda and vinegar.
(c) Maggot and ants are helping decomposer. __________
(d) Physical change usually is a reversible change. __________
(e) Rusting will lead the corrosion of the materials __________
(f) Decomposers doesn’t need oxygen, warmth and __________
moisture to do decomposition.
(g) Polishing the metal with chrome can slow down the __________
process of rusting.
(h) Minerals, water and CO2 are returned to the __________
environment when the dead matter and animal
waste decompose
17. State reversible or non-reversible