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Matter In Our Surroundings

You are provided with a mixture of naphthalene and ammonium chloride
by your teacher. Suggest an activity to separate them with well labelled
diagram.

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Matter In Our Surroundings

(a) Conversion of solid to vapour is called sublimation. Name the term used
to denote the conversion of vapour to solid.
(b) Conversion of solid state to liquid state is called fusion; what is meant
by latent heat of fusion?

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Matter In Our Surroundings

Alka was making tea in a kettle. Suddenly she felt intense heat from the
puff of steam gushing out of the spout of the kettle. She wondered whether
the temperature of the steam was higher than that of the water boiling in
the kettle. Comment

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Matter In Our Surroundings

Water as ice has a cooling effect, whereas water as steam may cause severe
burns. Explain these observations.

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Classify the following into osmosis/diffusion
(a) Swelling up of a raisin on keeping in water.
(b) Spreading of virus on sneezing.
(c) Earthworm dying on coming in contact with common salt.
(d) Shrinking of grapes kept in thick sugar syrup.
(e) Preserving pickles in salt.
(f) Spreading of smell of cake being baked through out the house.
(g) Aquatic animals using oxygen dissolved in water during respiration.

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Matter In Our Surroundings

‘Osmosis is a special kind of diffusion’. Comment.

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The non S I and S I units of some physical quantities are given in column
A and column B respectively. Match the units belonging to the same
physical quantity:
(A) (B)
(a) degree celsius (i) kilogram
(b) centimetre (ii) pascal
(c) gram per centimetre cube (iii) metre
(d) bar (iv) kelvin
(e) milligram (v) kilogram per metre cube

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Matter In Our Surroundings

Match the physical quantities given in column A to their S I units given in
column B :
(A) (B)
(a) Pressure (i) cubic metre
(b) Temperature (ii) kilogram
(c) Density (iii) pascal
(d) Mass (iv) kelvin
(e) Volume (v) kilogram per cubic metre

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Fill in the blanks:
(a) Evaporation of a liquid at room temperature leads to a——— effect.
(b) At room temperature the forces of attraction between the particles of
solid substances are———than those which exist in the gaseous state.
(c) The arrangement of particles is less ordered in the ——— state. However,
there is no order in the ——— state.
(d) ——— is the change of solid state directly to vapour state without going
through the ———state.
(e) The phenomenon of change of a liquid into the gaseous state at any
temperature below its boiling point is called———.

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A sample of water under study was found to boil at 102°C at normal
temperature and pressure. Is the water pure? Will this water freeze at 0°C?
Comment

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