Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI-Western Visayas
Schools Division of Iloilo
Schools District of Calinog II
BANBAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Calinog, Iloilo

Name:______________________________________________ Date: __________

Teacher: ___________________________________________Grade: _________

Direction: Read the statement below and encircle the correct answer.

1. Which of the following is a mixture?

a. c.

b. d.

2. Mixtures can be homogenous or heterogeneous. A sachet of 3 in 1

coffee contains coffee, sugar and powdered cream. Thus, making it
heterogeneous. When hot water is being poured into the 3 in 1
mixture, it turned homogeneous. What idea supports the said
occurrence?
a. The components of mixtures when dissolve in hot water cannot be
identified.
b. The components of mixtures mixed with hot water taste sweet.
c. The components of mixtures form a two-layer liquid.
d. The components of mixtures can be separated.

3. Which of the following are homogeneous mixtures?

 a. I and II c. II and III
b. IV and V d. I, IV and V
4. Which is true about heterogeneous mixtures?
a. Composition of mixtures are the same all throughout.
b. Composition of mixtures are visible
c. Composition of mixtures can be easily identified
d. Both B and C
5. Which of the following mixtures is heterogeneous?
a. salt and sugar dissolved in water
b. powdered detergent in a pail of water
c. 3 in 1 coffee dissolved in hot water
d. vegetable salad with dressing
6. Which of the following materials can be dissolved?
a. Stone c. salt
b. leaf d. cloth

7. If you are going to mix hot water and coffee powder what will happen?
a. The coffee powder will not dissolve in water.
b. The coffee powder will dissolve in water thoroughly.
c. The coffee powder will dissolve in water partially.
d. None of the above
8. This is formed when one substance is dissolved in another substance.
a. Solute b. solution
c. Sols d. aerosol
5. Which of the following materials is a solvent?
a. Flour b. water
c.sugar d. both a and b
6. It dissolves more substances than any other?
a. Sugar b. salt
c.Water d. pebble
9. What type of mixture is a solution?
a. Heterogeneous c. Immiscible
b. Homogeneous d. Miscible
10. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a solution?
a. It is a uniform mixture
b. It will scatter a beam of light
c. It is stable over time
d. The solute and solvent cannot be distinguished by the naked
eye

11. What is the substance that is being dissolved in a solution?

a. Solute c. Solvent
b. Mixture d. Concentrator

12. What is the substance that dissolves the other substance in a

solution?
a. Solute c. Solvent
b. Mixture d. Concentrator

13. In a salt water solution, what substance is considered the solvent?

 a. Salt c. Both are solvents
b. Water d. Neither substance is a solvent
14. Which of the following is an example of a colloid?
a. mayonnaise b. cooking oil
c. soft drinks d. bubbles in water

15. What phenomenon occur when dispersed colloid particles scatter light?
a. Tyndall effect b. shaft effect
c. miscible d. immiscible

16. What example of colloid has dispersed solid particles in gas?

a. milk b. smoke c. gelatin d. blood

17.What is the most abundant particle in a colloid?

a. dispersing mediums b. dispersing phases
c. miscible d. immiscible

18. Why is milk categorized as emulsion?

a. because settling cannot separate the components of homogenized milk.
b. because settling can separate the components of homogenized milk
c. The colloid's particles of milk are larger.
d. The colloid's particles are smaller.
19. What kind of mixture is formed when larger particles settle out when
left undisturbed?
a. colloid
b. suspension
c. solution
d. solvent
20. What kind of mixture is formed when oil is mixed with water?
a. solution
b. water
c. colloids
d. suspension
21. Which of the following mixtures is not an example of a suspension?
a. salt and water
b. oil and water
c. sand and water
d. chalk and water

22. How does suspension appear?

a. It appears clear.
b. It appears cloudy.
c. It appears messy.
d. none of the above
23. Which of the following statements do not describe a suspension?
a. Suspensions are larger particles is visible to the naked eyes.
b. Suspensions are particles that settle out when left undisturbed.
c. Mixture of soil and water is an example of suspension.
d. Suspensions are homogeneous mixture and invisible to the naked
eye.
24. What method of separating mixtures will you use if you want
to remove small shells in a grind/ground coffee?
a. filtering c. evaporation
b. sieving d. decantation
25. Which of the following mixtures use filter cloth to separate solid from
a liquid extract?
 a. flour with stones c. baby powder with pebbles
b. powder chalk with seeds d. milk from grated coconut
28. In filtering technique of separating mixtures, what type of material
passes through a filter paper or cloth?
a. liquid c. solid
b. gas d. plasma
29. Yesha accidentally mixed the grind/ground rice that she will be
using in making “bebingka” or rice cakes and “puto” with pebbles
while looking for her other ingredients. How will Yesha removes the
pebbles from the grind/ground rice?
a. She will use filter paper to remove it.
b. She will use evaporation process to remove it.
c. She will use decantation process to remove it.
d. She will use a sieve to remove it.
30. How will you separate the calamansi seeds from calamansi juice?
a. by sieving c. by filtering
b. by picking d. by sedimentation
31. What method is used to obtain salt from sea water?
a. decantation c. evaporation
b. sedimentation d. filtering
32. Which of the following examples undergo evaporation process?
a. a pail of water under the heat of the sun
b. brushing your teeth after meal
c. ironing clothes every weekend
d. listening to the radio

33. It is the main factor that causes evaporation process in separating

mixtures.
a. water c. smoke
b. heat d. light
34. Princess accidentally spill a glass of water in the salt container and she
is thinking with of a solution on how she’s going to recover salt from
water.
What will Princess do to return the salt to its original phase?
a. She will wrap it with newspaper tightly
b. She will throw it away in the waste can
c. She will hide it in a dark corner
d. She will boil the solution
35. While boiling water in a kettle, Gwayne noticed that there are smoke
coming from the spout of a kettle. He asked his mother, “Why did the
smoke rise upward”? What do you think will be the mother’s answer?
a. because the water reached its cooling point
b. because the water reached its boiling point
c. because the water is heated and became water vapor
d. because the water is freezing
36. Which of the following mixtures can be separated using decantation
method?
a. sugar and milk
b. water in oil
c. mixed nuts
d. vegetable salad with dressing
37. Your mother asked you to cook dried fish for lunch and you
accidentally mixed the oil with water. What method will you use to
separate the mixture?
 a. decantation method
b. magnetism
c. evaporation
d. filtering
38. Which one of the following techniques would best be used to
separate soil and water?
a. filtration c. decanting
b. distillation d. chromatography
39. This method is a technique used in separating a less-dense
substance from a denser one.
a. evaporation c. picking
b. decantation d. all of the above
40.What will happen to the less-dense substance of mixtures if you
separate them using decantation method?
a. it will evaporate c. remain the same
b. it will float up d. it will become solid

41. Metal and non-metal objects can be separated by using a __________.

a. filter
b. magnet
c. sieve
d. water
42. How will you separate mixture of metal and nonmetal objects?
e. by decantation
f. by winnowing
g. by using a magnet
h. by evaporation
43. Needle in sawdust can be separated by means of ______________.
a. decantation
b. magnetic separation
c. filtration
d. sifting
44.How will you separate mixture of staple wire and chalk powder?
a. by decantation
b. by winnowing
c. by using a magnet
d. by evaporation
45.Mrs. Cruz’s needle was mixed with bits of paper. How will she separate the
needle safely from the bits of paper?

a. by decantation
b. by winnowing
c. by using a magnet
d. by evaporation
46.Which of he following can we apply the method of picking/handpicking?
a. segregating the laundry b. scrubbing the floor
c. taking a bath d. watering the plants
47. Which of the following mixtures could not be separated by SIEVING?
a. chalk and chalk dust b. needles and stones
c. sand and pebbles d. sugar and flour
48. If Anna wants to get iron fillings out of the sand, what practical applications
she will use to separate these two solids?
a. handpicking b. filtration c. sieving d. magnetism
49. Mila’s grandmother handed her a sewing kit of buttons with different colors
and sizes. Her grandmother asked if she can help organize the things she will use
to sewed ripped clothes. It is very hard for her grandmother to see and pick the
small needles using her hands> How would Mila help her grandmother?
a. Mila will use filter paper to gather a small pebbles
b. Mila will use her own hands to collect small needles by herself
c. Mila will use magnets to hold and collect small needles
d. Mila will pour all the things inside the sewing kit and separate them all
using decantation
50. Which of the following is not a benefit of decantation?
a. Removal of unwanted liquid from a mixture
b. To obtain drinkable and potable water from a dirty sample
c. To carried out where the dirty water is separated from the clean ones
d. To purify drinking water of unwanted chemicals and minerals such
as salt