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Activity: Physical and Chemical Changes

This document provides a worksheet to help students distinguish between physical and chemical properties and changes. It defines key terms like physical property, physical change, chemical property, and chemical change. The worksheet then has students identify examples as physical or chemical properties and indicate whether examples represent physical or chemical changes. The key provides the answers.

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Activity: Physical and Chemical Changes

This document provides a worksheet to help students distinguish between physical and chemical properties and changes. It defines key terms like physical property, physical change, chemical property, and chemical change. The worksheet then has students identify examples as physical or chemical properties and indicate whether examples represent physical or chemical changes. The key provides the answers.

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WORKSHEET ON CHEMICAL VS PHYSICAL

PROPERTIES AND CHANGES


Keep this in your binder as a study guide! You will have a quiz on this next class!

Background:

Keeping the difference between physical and chemical properties as well as changes can be a

challenge! This worksheet will help you do this. First, use the book to define the following terms.
VOCABULARY WORD

DEFINITION

Physical Property
Physical Change

Change in which the identity of the substance does NOT change

Chemical Property
Chemical Change

Part One:

Physical or Chemical Property? Fill in the chart using the vocabulary words or phrases provided.

Vocabulary words
Boiling point

Ability to rust

Melting point

Brittleness

elasticity

Flammability

Density

Transparency

Reactivity with
vinegar
ductility

Each word is used once. Define the word when done!


Chemical Property
Definition
The ability to burn
Reacts with oxygen to produce rust

Physical Property

Part Two:
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9.

Definition
The property of letting light pass through something

Physical or Chemical Change? Indicate with a P or a C which type of change is taking place.

____________ glass breaking


____________ hammering wood together
____________ a rusting bicycle
____________ melting butter
____________ separate sand from gravel
____________ bleaching your hair
____________ frying an egg
____________ squeeze oranges for juice
____________ melting ice

10.
11.
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____________ mixing salt and water


____________ mixing oil and water
____________ water evaporating
____________ cutting grass
____________ burning leaves
____________ fireworks exploding
____________ cutting your hair
____________ crushing a can
____________ boiling water

KEY:

WORKSHEET ON CHEMICAL VS PHYSICAL


PROPERTIES AND CHANGES
Keep this in your binder as a study guide!

Background:

Keeping the difference between physical and chemical properties as well as changes can be a

challenge! This worksheet will help you do this. First, use the book to define the following terms.
VOCABULARY WORD
Physical Property
Physical Change
Chemical Property
Chemical Change

Part One:

DEFINITION
Characteristics of matter that can be seen through direct observation such as
density, melting point, and boiling point
Change in which the identity of the substance does NOT change
Characteristic of matter that can only be observed when one substance changes
into a difference substance, such as iron into rust
Transforms one type of matter into another kind, which may have different
properties.

Physical or Chemical Property? Fill in the chart using the vocabulary words or phrases provided.

Vocabulary words
Boiling point

Ability to rust

Melting point

Brittleness

elasticity

Flammability

Freezing point

Transparency

Reactivity with
vinegar
ductility

Each word is used once. Define the word when done!


Chemical Property
Definition

flammability
Ability to rust
Reactivity with vinegar

Physical Property

transparency
Boiling point
Melting point
Brittleness
Ductility
Elasticity
Density

Part Two:
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.

The ability to burn


Reacts with oxygen to produce rust
Reacts with vinegar to produce new substances

Definition

The property of letting light pass through something


Temperature at which a substance goes from liquid to gas
Temperature at which a substance goes from solid to a liquid
Tendency to crack or break
Ability to bend without breaking
Ability to be stretched or compressed then return to original size
Mass per unit volume

Physical or Chemical Change? Indicate with a P or a C which type of change is taking place.

____p_______ glass breaking


____p_______ hammering wood together
____c_______ a rusting bicycle
____p_______ melting butter
____p_______ separate sand from gravel
____c_______ bleaching your hair
____c_______ frying an egg
_____p______ squeeze oranges for juice
______p_____ melting ice

10.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.
17.
18.

____p_______ mixing salt and water


_____p______ mixing oil and water
_____p______ water evaporating
_____p______ cutting grass
_____c______ burning leaves
_____c______ fireworks exploding
_____p______ cutting your hair
_____p______ crushing a can
____p_______ boiling water

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