Directions: Identify whether it is a chemical or a

physical change. Write the answer in your

notebook
___________1. Magnesium ribbon in
hydrochloric acid.
• ___________2. Baking a cake
• ___________3. Condensation of water
• ___________4. Acid rain damaged statue
• ___________5. Burning wood
• Changes always happen. Like the growth of a
plant.
• These changes can be physical or chemical.
• When the plant becomes taller, it is physical
change.
• At the time it bears flowers or fruit it is a
chemical change.
What is Physical Change?
 Physical Change
• transforms the physical state of a substance
without changing its composition.
• Common example of a substance
• undergoing physical change is the three
different phases of water as shown in Figure 1
Processes involved in the phase
changes
• Substances are capable of changing their
physical phase when the conditions are
altered.
• One of the conditions that make substances
transform from one phase to another is the
change in temperature.
 Evaporation
• the process by which the molecules on the
surface of a liquid break away and change into
gas.
• When a liquid is heated, the kinetic energy of
its molecules increased, making the particles
move faster.
• Further heating may bring the liquid into its
boiling point.
 Condensation
• is the change of water from its gaseous form
(water vapor) into liquid water.
• It is important to remember that the
evaporation of liquid in a closed container is
different from evaporation from an open
container.
• In a close container, no particles can escape
into the air outside the cover of the container.
Droplets of water formed under the cover of
the container.
 Melting
• the process when solid like ice changes
to liquid (water).
 Freezing
• the process in which a liquid is changed to a
solid.
 Sublimation
• the process in which solid changes to gas with
no intermediate liquid stage.
• It is most often used to describe the process of
snow and ice changing into water vapor in the
air without first melting into water.
 Summary
• Freezing: Change of a substance from liquid
phase to solid.
• Melting: Change from solid phase to liquid.
• Vaporization: Change from liquid to gaseous
form.
• Condensation: Change from gas to liquid form.
• Sublimation: Change from solid to a gas
without becoming a liquid.
What is Chemical Change?
 Chemical Change
• converts a substance into another chemically
different substance. This is also called a chemical
reaction.
• A common example of a chemical change is
burning paper as shown in Figure 2.

The burning of paper changes the paper's properties.