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Draw a neat and well-labelled diagram for the technique used for separation of chalk powder from a mixture of chalk and water.

Important Questions on Methods of Separation in Everyday Life

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Distilled water is _____ of the electricity.
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Squeeze some drops of lime into a glass of milk. You will see a whitish solid forming after some time. Place a thin cloth over a bowl and pour the liquid on it. The white solid is left behind on the cloth and liquid collects in the bowl.

_____ is the name of the process represented by pouring the liquid through a cloth. (distillation/filtration/chromatography)

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Filtration removes _____ impurities from water. (insoluble/ soluble)

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_____ makes use of the fact that chaff is lighter than the grain. (Winnowing/Sedimentation)
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Fill in the blank space by choosing correct words from the list given below . 
List : evaporation, churning, threshing, sieving, sedimentation, winnowing, condensation, hand-picking. 

Simplest way of separating broken rice from whole rice is_____ 

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The method of removing grains from stalks is called _____.
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The process by which vapour changes into liquid state on cooling is called _____.
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_____ is used to remove impurities from flour before preparing the dough. (Sieving/ Threshing)
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Squeeze some drops of lime into a glass of milk. You will see a whitish solid forming after some time. Place a thin cloth over a bowl and pour the liquid on it. The white solid is left behind on the cloth and liquid collects in the bowl.

_____ is the process represented by adding lime to milk.

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_____ is done to separate solid substances that are differ in size.
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The method of separating seeds of paddy from its stalks is called _____.
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When it is very cold, dew drops freeze into tiny crystals called _____.
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Fill in the blank space by choosing correct words from the list given below . 
List : evaporation, churning, threshing, sieving, sedimentation, winnowing, condensation, hand-picking. 

The process of allowing the muddy water to stand so that mud settles at the base is called_____.

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During the process of _____, impurities in water are left behind.  (Filtration / Condensation)
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Form a similar pair of words.
Saltwater : _____ (condensation/evaporation) :: muddy water : filtration
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Tea leaves are separated after preparation of tea by the method of _____.
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Fill in the blank space by choosing correct words from the list given below . 
List : evaporation, churning, threshing, sieving, sedimentation, winnowing, condensation, hand-picking. 

The method of removing grains from stalks is called _____.

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The component that is left behind in the process of evaporation is called _____.
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Filtration can be used to remove _____ impurities from dirty water.

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Fill in the blank space by choosing correct words from the list given below . 
List : evaporation, churning, threshing, sieving, sedimentation, winnowing, condensation, hand-picking. 

Corn is separated from husk by the process of _____.