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IX Chemistry 1 Matter in Our Surrounding

This assignment for Class IX Chemistry focuses on the topic 'Matter in Our Surroundings' and includes various questions related to the properties and behaviors of matter. Students are asked to list characteristics of particles, describe natural processes, and explain phenomena such as diffusion and the states of matter. The assignment also includes conversion of temperatures, observations of sugar in water, and reasoning behind everyday occurrences related to matter.

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IX Chemistry 1 Matter in Our Surrounding

This assignment for Class IX Chemistry focuses on the topic 'Matter in Our Surroundings' and includes various questions related to the properties and behaviors of matter. Students are asked to list characteristics of particles, describe natural processes, and explain phenomena such as diffusion and the states of matter. The assignment also includes conversion of temperatures, observations of sugar in water, and reasoning behind everyday occurrences related to matter.

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CLASS IX (2024-25)

CHEMISTRY
ASSIGNMENT NO. 1
TOPIC: MATTER IN OUR SURROUNDINGS
1. List any four characteristics of particles of matter.
2. Name two natural processes, which provide the best evidence of motion of particles in matter.
3. Which property of gases makes it possible to fill large volume of gases in small cylinders?
4. A spoonful of sugar is added to a beaker containing 500 ml of water andstirred for a while. State
any two observations that you will make.
5. Suggest a method to liquefy atmospheric gases.
6. Why do we feel cool after applying shave lotion or perfume?
7. Predict the physical state of matter in each case from the following characteristic.
a) It has a definite volume but no definite shape.
b) It is rigid and highly incompressible.
c) Kinetic energy of particles is minimum in this state.
d) It represents the most highly compressible form of matter.
8. Distinguish solids, liquids and gases in a tabular form under the following properties.
a) Rigidity
b) Compressibility
c) inter particle force of attraction
d) Kinetic energy of particles.
9. What is Diffusion and explain why, it occurs faster in a gas than in a liquid.
10. Ice,water and steam are three states of a substances and not different substances. Justify.
11. Convert the following celsius temperatures to kelvin scale
i) -273 0C ii) 300 C iii) -1000 C iv) – 400 C
12. Dry ice is obtained when a gas is compressed at high pressure. Name the gasand state what
happens to it when the pressure is released.
13. When water is heated at a temperature ‘X’ by, a process called ‘P’& when steam is reconverted
at the same, temperature into water and the process is called as ‘Q’.
a) What is the temperature ‘X’ in Kelvin?
b) What is the process ‘P’ & ‘Q’ known as?
c) Name the energy released and absorbed during process P &Q respectively?
14. Give reasons :

a) Our planet does not become completely dry during evaporation.


b) Clothes dry faster on a windy day.
c) Smell of perfume travels a few yards away.
d) Doctors advise to put strips of wet cloth on the forehead of a person having high temperature.
e) Ice at 00C is more effective in cooling than water at 00.

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