Name:

Year 7 Class:

Chemistry Baseline Test Date:

Time Allowed: 50 mins

Instructions and information: Question Mark

• Answer all questions in blue/black pen. 1

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• Answer the questions in the space available.
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• The marks for each question are shown in brackets.
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• The maximum mark for the paper is 50.
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• You must make your work as neat as possible and use good English.
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When answering the questions, please make sure that you have read and understood the question
before answering it.

When you think you know the answer, place a tick in the correct box.

Remember to read how many boxes you need to tick before answering. Some questions ask for two
boxes to be ticked and some questions ask for one.

There is a sample question below to show you what you need to do.

1. A pupil has four different types of rock: granite, slate, sandstone and limestone.

The pupil slowly drops a small amount of water onto each rock. Some of the water soaks
into the rock.

Tick one box to show the word which describes why the water soaks into the rock.

(1)
translucent

strong

permeable

transparent

When answering questions that ask you to draw lines, use a ruler. This will help to make your
answer clearer.

solid water

liquid salt

gas steam

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1. (a) Tommy stirs a hot mixture carefully with a wooden spoon. He discovers that the wooden handle
stays cool.

State why the handle of the wooden spoon stays cool. Tick one box.

(1)
wood cannot get hot

wood is a poor conductor of heat

wood is hard

wood is a poor insulator of heat

(b) The mixture becomes hot.

Tick one box to show which piece of equipment Tommy should use to measure how hot the
mixture is.

(1)
scales

thermometer

beaker

force meter

(c) Match the names given to water when it is a solid, a liquid and a gas.

Draw three lines.

(3)

ice solid

water vapour liquid

water gas

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(d) Matter is made up of particles.

A B C

Which picture shows the particles arranged in a liquid?

(1)


(e) Next to each statement below, write the words yes or no.

Gas particles move freely.

Liquid particles have strong bonds.

Solid particles vibrate in a fixed position.

(3)

Total for Question 1 = 9 Marks

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2. (a) Two children decide to cook rice at home for their tea. They measure water into a jug.

How much water did they measure out? ml

(1)
(b) The two children put the water into a metal saucepan. The saucepan is put on the cooker.

State why metal is a good material for the saucepan. Tick one box.

(1)
it is strong

it is opaque

good electrical conductor

good thermal conductor

(c) The two children then investigate the properties of materials.

They use a key to sort the following materials: wood, steel, paper, wax, aluminium and copper.

Complete the key. Each word should be used once. More than one word can be placed in each box.

(5)

The material conducts electricity.

yes no

The material is attracted to a magnet. The material melts.

yes no yes no

wax

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(d) Two children make ice lollies on a hot day. The children cool the liquid in the freezer.

What is the name of the process when a liquid changes to a solid?

(1)


(e) Tick two statements below to show that an ice lolly is a solid.

(2)
The particles are in a fixed position.

It is slippery.

It feels very cold.

It is nice to eat.

As the particles are fixed, it cannot be poured.

(f) The ice lollies the children made are different sizes. The children time how long it takes for each
ice lolly to melt.

Volume of Lolly (cm3) Time Taken to Melt (minutes)

35 150

40 200

45 235

50 255

55 265

Explain the link between the time it takes for the lolly to melt and the volume of the lolly.

(2)


Total for Question 2 = 12 Marks

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3. (a) A pupil wanted to find out what happens when water is mixed with a solid.

The pupil adds water to four different solids. The mixture is stirred and left to settle. Twenty
minutes later, the pupil draws the results.

colourless cloudy colourless coloured

liquid liquid liquid liquid
solid brown bubble
pieces solid

The table below shows the solids that the pupil mixed with water.

Write 1, 2, 3 or 4 to identify the solid in each beaker.

(4)
Solid Beaker

soil

vitamin tablet

plastic beads

salt

(b) Describe what happened to the solid in beaker 3.

(1)


(c) State in which beaker there was a non-reversible change.

(1)


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(d) Sarah investigates the effect of salt on melting ice. In two funnels, she puts the same amount of
ice and adds salt to the ice in one of the funnels.

Sarah measures how much water is in each cylinder, every ten minutes.

The graph shows Sarah’s results.

Complete the missing label and units on the axes.

(2)

( )

(e) Explain the effect of salt on ice in Sarah's investigation.

(1)


(f) ‘The more salt added, the steeper the line.’

The results on the graph do not support his conclusion.

Why do the results not support this conclusion? Tick one box.

(1)
The line on the graph is not steep.

The same amount of ice was used each time.

Different amounts of salt were not tested.

The amount of water was measured every ten minutes.

Total for Question 3 = 10 Marks

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4. (a) A science class have been given the following materials:

water bicarbonate of soda mineral salt

Tick one box to show whether each material is a solid, a liquid or a gas.

(2)
Material Solid Liquid Gas

salt

baking powder

water

(b) The teacher mixes salt with water. The salt dissolves in the water.

Explain how the teacher could get the salt back out of the water.

(2)


(c) Ahmed mixes sand and water together in a beaker. He separates the mixture using the
equipment below.

State the name of this method of separating.

(1)


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(d) Why is it possible for sand to be separated from water using this method?

(2)


(e) Some mixtures can be separated with a filter.

Complete the table by writing yes or no to show if a filter can be used to separate each mixture.

(2)

Mixture Can the mixture be filtered? Yes or no?

sand and stones no

soil and water

sand and soil

salt and water

Total for Question 4 = 9 Marks

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5. (a) Pupils in a science class were asked to make model sheep. The instructions say that the sheep will
grow a white coat.

Once pupils had made the cardboard sheep, they were asked to stand it in a special liquid and
leave for two days.

The liquid was made by mixing a solid in water. After stirring, the liquid was completely clear.

Explain why the pupils could not see the solid mixed into the liquid.

(1)


(b) The unknown clear liquid soaks up to the top of the cardboard sheep.

carboard sheep

plastic stand
pot of special
clear liquid

State which property of cardboard allows it to soak up the unknown liquid. Tick one box.
(1)

soft transparent

strong absorbent

rigid smooth

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(c) The water separates from the solid once the unknown liquid has soaked into the cardboard.

A white coat can slowly be seen growing on the sheep.

plastic stand
At the start After 1 day After 2 days

The white coat appears due to the presence of the solid in the unknown liquid.

After two days, the sheep’s coat stops growing. Explain why.

(1)


(d) A solid was mixed with water. It is this solid that made the sheep’s white coat.

Which solid could have made the sheep’s white coat?

(1)
baking powder

flour

rice

salt

(e) A pupil wanted to find out if the temperature of water affected the time it took for sugar to
dissolve.

The pupil dissolved one teaspoon of sugar in 50ml of water.

The test was repeated at different temperatures.

Name two variables in the pupil’s experiment that should be kept the same to ensure that they
carry out a fair test.

(2)

Total for Question 5 = 6 Marks

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6. (a) Amy knows that water and vinegar evaporate.

What does evaporation mean? Tick one box.

Evaporation is the change from a...

(1)
gas to a liquid.

gas to a solid.

liquid to a solid.

liquid to a gas.

(b) Amy sets up a test to find out if more water or more vinegar will evaporate over two days.

Amy gets two containers and puts water in one and vinegar in the other.

Amy placed both containers in a sunny place in her house.

Describe one thing that is not fair in Amy’s test.

(1)

(c) Why is it important that Amy’s test is a fair one?

(1)

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(d) Amy changes her test to make it fair. Using a measuring cylinder, she measures the volume of
water and vinegar twice daily to see how much has evaporated. She records her results in the
table below.

Volume of Water Volume of Vinegar

Day Time
(cm3) (cm3)

9 a.m. 100 100

Monday
3 p.m. 98 97

9 a.m. 90 81
Tuesday
3 p.m. 88 79

Amy wanted to compare the volumes of water and vinegar to find out which evaporated the
most over two days.

Using Amy’s results, write a conclusion based on her findings.

(1)

Total for Question 6 = 4 Marks

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