PROGRESSION EXAM 1 [2021-22]

STAGE 9 – CHEMISTRY
Time: 1hr 30 minutes Marks: 50
Name: _______________________ Sec: _______ Roll. No.____ Date: 09-09-2021

General Instructions:
• This question paper consists of 08 pages.
• This paper consists of 03 sections.
• Section A 1-10 MCQ (10M)
• Section B-theory 11 to 16 questions (30M)
• Section C: ATP Question 17,18 (10M)
• Periodic table is provided as a separate pdf for reference.

SECTION A TOTAL 10 MARKS

1. A sugar cube is dropped into a hot cup of tea. The tea is not stirred. Which statement
explains why the tea becomes sweet?
A. The heated water molecules penetrate the sugar cube.
B. The hot tea causes the sugar to melt.
C. The sugar cube dissolves and its molecules diffuse.
D. The sugar molecules get hot and evaporate

2. A student needs to measure 17.60 cm3 of hydrochloric acid. The student has access to
the apparatus commonly found in a school laboratory. Which piece of equipment should
be used to measure the 17.60 cm3 of hydrochloric acid?
A. a burette
B. a gas syringe
C. a measuring cylinder
D. a pipette

3. When calcium carbonate is added to dilute hydrochloric acid, carbon dioxide gas is
released. Three sets of apparatus are shown.

Which sets of apparatus are suitable, together with a stop-watch, for following the
rate of this reaction?

A) 1, 2 and 3 B) 1 and 2 only C) 2 only D) 2 and 3 only

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4. Why does a balloon full of helium gas become smaller as the temperature changes from
30 C to 10 C?
A. The gas condenses to a liquid and so takes up less space.
B. The gas particles become smaller at lower temperatures.
C. The gas particles diffuse through the balloon and escape.
D. The gas particles move more slowly so reducing the pressure.

5. The diagram shows part of the Periodic Table.

Which element has the highest proton number and which element has the largest
number of valence electrons?

6. A lump of element X can be cut by a knife. During its reaction with water, X floats and
melts. What is X?
A. calcium
B. copper
C. magnesium
D. potassium

7. Which statement about the properties of some elements is correct?

A. All noble gases are unreactive due to having eight electrons in their outer shells.
B. The Group VII element astatine, At2, is expected to be a black solid at room
temperature.
C. The reactivity of the elements in both Group I and Group VII increases down the
group.
D. When aqueous chlorine is added to aqueous potassium bromide there is no
change in colour.

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8. A purple pill is placed in a beaker of water. The beaker is left for several hours. The
diagram shows the appearance of the water when the pill is added and several hours
later.

Which statement explains why this change occurs?

A. Diffusion occurs because the pill is coloured.
B. Diffusion occurs faster at higher temperatures.
C. Diffusion occurs from an area of high concentration to one of lower
concentration.
D. Gases diffuse faster than liquids.
9. Chlorine is passed into separate samples of aqueous potassium iodide and aqueous
potassium bromide. In which solutions is there a colour change?

10. Four substances are heated gently. The temperatures at which they start and finish
melting are recorded.

Which statement about the substances is correct?

A. A Substance 1 is the only pure substance.

B. Substance 3 and substance 4 are impure.
C. Substance 4 is water.
D. They are all solids at room temperature.

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 SECTION B TOTAL 30 MARKS
11. Chromatography can be used to identify simple sugars in a mixture. A student analysed a
mixture of simple sugars by chromatography. All the simple sugars in the mixture were
colourless.
(i) What is the name given to the type of substance used to identify the
positions of the simple sugars on the chromatogram? [1]
(ii) The student calculated the Rf value of a spot on the chromatogram.
Complete the expression for the Rf value of the spot. [1]
(iii) How could a student identify a simple sugar from its Rf value? [1]
(iv) Sometimes not all the substances in a mixture can be identified from the
chromatogram produced. Explain why this may happen. [1]

[TOTAL: 4M]

12. Cobalt is a transition element. Potassium is in Group I of the Periodic Table.

(a) State one physical property that is similar for cobalt and potassium. [1]
(b) (i) State one physical property that is different for cobalt and potassium. [1]
(ii) Describe how the physical property given in (b)(i) is different for cobalt
compared to potassium. [1]
(c) When a small piece of potassium is added to cold water, the potassium
floats and disappears as it reacts. Give two other observations that would be
made when a small piece of potassium is added to cold water. [2]

[TOTAL: 5M]

13. The apparatus shown was set up.

After five minutes, a red solid appeared along the line marked S on the diagram.
(i) Explain why a red solid appeared along the line marked S. [3]
(ii) The experiment was repeated at a higher temperature. What effect, if any,
would this have on the time taken for the red solid to appear?
Explain your answer. [2]
[TOTAL: 5M]

14. (a) Crystals of hydrated cobalt(II) sulfate, CoSO4.7H2O, can be made by reacting dilute
sulfuric acid with insoluble cobalt carbonate. Describe how you could prepare a pure
dry sample of cobalt(II) sulfate crystals from dilute sulfuric acid and cobalt(II)
carbonate. [4]
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 (b) When heated, hydrated cobalt(II) sulfate forms an anhydrous salt in a reversible
reaction.
(i) Complete the equation for this reaction by inserting the sign for a reversible
reaction in the box

(ii) Suggest how you could use this reaction to test for the presence of water. [2]

[TOTAL: 7M]

15. The diagram shows a heating curve of substance T. What is the physical state or states of
T at the following points?

A _______________
B _______________
C _______________
D _______________
[TOTAL: 4M]
16. The density of air and some noble gases at r.t.p. in g/dm3 are given below.
Air: 1.20 Ar: 1.78 He: 0.18 Kr: 3.74 Ne: 0.90
(a) Which gases could you use to fill balloons that float upwards in air? [1]
(b) Use ideas about electron arrangement to suggest why Group VIII elements are
monoatomic and not diatomic? [2]

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 c)The bar charts show the melting point and densities of some metals in Period 4.

What information in the bar charts suggests that calcium is not a transition element?
[2]
[TOTAL: 5]

SECTION C TOTAL 10 MARKS

17. A student adds a known mass of magnesium ribbon to 100cm3 of dilute
hydrochloric acid (an excess) in the apparatus shown. Hydrogen gas is evolved.

(ii) Name apparatus A and B. 2M

18. A teacher separated a mixture of two liquids using the apparatus shown. The
liquids were: • ethanoic acid, boiling point 118 °C, • chloroethanoic acid, boiling
point 190 °C.

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a.Complete the boxes to label the pieces of apparatus used. 2M
b.(i) Which liquid would be collected first? Explain why . 2M
(ii) How would the teacher know when all of this liquid had been collected? 1M
(c) Suggest why small glass beads are used in the fractionating column instead of large glass
beads. 1M
(d) Give a test to show that the liquids are acidic
Test: ……………………
Result: ……………….. 2M

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