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1. Give the correct name for each change of state:
a. Solid → liquid: ____________________________________________
b. Liquid → solid: ____________________________________________
c. Gas → liquid: ____________________________________________
d. Liquid → gas: ____________________________________________
2. A large crystal of potassium manganate(VII) was placed in the bottom of a beaker of cold
water and left for several hours.
a. Describe what would be seen:
i. After five minutes: ________________________________________________
ii. After several hours: _______________________________________________
b. Explain your answers using the idea of particles: ________________________________________
c. Name the two processes that took place during the experiment: _____________________________
3. Use the idea of particles to explain why:
a. Solids have a definite shape: ____________________________________________________________
b. Liquids fill the bottom of a container: ____________________________________________________
c. You can't store gases in open containers: _________________________________________________
d. You can't squeeze a sealed plastic syringe that is completely full of water:
_______________________
e. A balloon expands as you blow into it: _____________________________________________________

4. Below is a heating curve for a pure substance. It shows how the temperature rises over
time when the substance is heated until it melts and then boils.
a. What is the melting point of the substance? ______________________________________________
b. What happens to the temperature while the substance changes state?

________________________
c. The graph shows that the substance takes longer to boil than to melt. Suggest a reason for
this: __________
d. How can you tell that the substance is not water? ________________________________________
e. Sketch a rough heating curve for pure water.
5. A cooling curve is the opposite of a heating curve. It shows how the temperature of a
substance changes with time as it is cooled from a gas to a solid.
a. What is the state of the substance at room temperature (20°C)? _____________________________
b. Use the list of melting and boiling points to identify the substance: _________________________
c. Sketch a cooling curve for pure water.
6. Using the idea of particles, explain each of these:
a. When two solids are placed on top of each other, they do not mix:
_____________________________
b. Heating a gas in a closed container will increase its pressure: ________________________________
c. Poisonous gases from a factory chimney can affect a large area: ______________________________
d. In a darkened cinema, dust particles appear to dance in the beam of light:

______________________
7. Pick out an example of diffusion:

a. Examples of diffusion:
i. ____________________________________________________
ii. ____________________________________________________
iii. ____________________________________________________
iv. ____________________________________________________
v. ____________________________________________________
vi. ____________________________________________________
vii. ____________________________________________________
b. For your choice, draw a diagram showing the particles before and after diffusion.
c. Explain why this diffusion occurs: _________________________________________________________
8. This is about the cooling curve in question 5:
a. Using the kinetic particle theory, describe and explain the changes in the arrangement of
particles that occur at 78°C: ____________________
b. Explain how the movement of particles is changing in the part of the curve labelled:
i. Gas: _________________________________________
ii. Liquid: _________________________________________
9. You can measure the rate of diffusion of a gas using this apparatus.
a. When you use hydrogen gas, the water rises in the measuring tube. Why?
________________________
b. What does this tell you about the rate of diffusion of hydrogen compared with the gases in
air? __________
c. Explain your answer to b. Use the term 'mass': ________________________________________________
d. The molecules in carbon dioxide are heavier than those in nitrogen and oxygen. Predict
what will happen to the water in the measuring tube when you use carbon dioxide. Explain
your answer: __________
10. Look at the table above.

a. Which two gases will mix fastest? Explain: ______________________________________________
b. Which gas will take the least time to escape from a gas syringe? ______________________________
c. Would you expect chlorine to diffuse more slowly than the gases in air? Explain:
________________
d. An unknown gas diffuses faster than nitrogen but more slowly than methane. What can
you deduce about its relative molecular mass? __________

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1. Give the correct name for each change of state:

a. Solid → liquid: ____________________________________________

b. Liquid → solid: ____________________________________________

c. Gas → liquid: ____________________________________________

d. Liquid → gas: ____________________________________________

a. Describe what would be seen:

i. After five minutes: ________________________________________________

ii. After several hours: _______________________________________________

b. Explain your answers using the idea of particles: ________________________________________

3. Use the idea of particles to explain why:

a. Solids have a definite shape: ____________________________________________________________

b. Liquids fill the bottom of a container: ____________________________________________________

c. You can't store gases in open containers: _________________________________________________

e. A balloon expands as you blow into it: _____________________________________________________

a. What is the melting point of the substance? ______________________________________________

b. What happens to the temperature while the substance changes state?

e. Sketch a rough heating curve for pure water.

a. What is the state of the substance at room temperature (20°C)? _____________________________

c. Sketch a cooling curve for pure water.

6. Using the idea of particles, explain each of these:

b. Heating a gas in a closed container will increase its pressure: ________________________________

d. In a darkened cinema, dust particles appear to dance in the beam of light:

7. Pick out an example of diffusion:

c. Explain why this diffusion occurs: _________________________________________________________

8. This is about the cooling curve in question 5:

ii. Liquid: _________________________________________

c. Explain your answer to b. Use the term 'mass': ________________________________________________

10. Look at the table above.

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