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Identify the following as physical change or chemical change.
  • When coal is burnt, it turns to ashes.

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What is corrosion? 
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What does the physical change mean?
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Explain why burning of wood and cutting it into small pieces is considered as two different types of changes.
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State two ways by which a change can be brought about.

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Classify the changes involved in the following processes as physical or chemical changes:
(A) Photosynthesis
(B) Dissolving sugar in water
(C) Burning of coal
(D) Melting of wax
(E) Beating aluminium to make aluminium foil
(F) Digestion of food
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What kinds of changes occur when a candle burns?
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When a candle burns, both physical and chemical changes take place. Identify these changes. Give another example of a familiar process in which both the chemical and physical changes take place.
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What are physical and chemical changes? Give an example of each.
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What does chemical change mean?
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Cutting a potato is a physical change while cooking it is a chemical change. Explain how.
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Select the material that undergoes the change.
  • A sheet of paper cut with a pair of scissors.
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When baking soda is mixed with lemon juice, bubbles are formed with the evolution of a gas. What type of change is it?
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What kind of change occurs when a pot is made from clay?
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How would you show that setting of curd is a chemical change?
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What are the differences between a physical and a chemical change? 
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The gas we use in the kitchen is called liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). In the cylinder it exists as a liquid. When it comes out from the cylinder it becomes a gas (Change — A) then it burns (Change — B). The following statements pertain to these changes. Choose the correct one.
(i) Process — A is a chemical change.
(ii) Process — B is a chemical change.
(iii) Both processes A and B are chemical changes.
(iv) None of these processes is a chemical change.
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Dissolution of a sugar cube in water is a physical change while burning a sugar cube is a chemical change. Why?
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What happens to the wax when we burn a candle? 
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Why is germination of a seed a chemical change?
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Melting and freezing of wax are _____ changes. (physical / chemical)