Matter and Material

Revision Assignment

A. Choose the correct option.

1. Which of the following is not a matter?
(a) Air (b) Water
(c) Glass (d) Vacuum
2. A uniform mixture of potassium permanganate and water
is called
(a) solute (b) solvent
(c) solution (d) filtrate
3. Which of the following is a chemical change?
(a) Heating of an iron rod (b) Heating of wax
(c) Heating of sugar (d) Heating of ice
4. In which state of matter molecules are very closely packed?
(a) Solid (b) Liquid
(c) Gas (d) Both liquid and
gas.
B. Fill in the blanks :
1. Anything that has weight and occupies space is called
_____________.
2. There are ___________ states of matter.

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 3. Air is a ____________ of gases.
4. Water vapour changes to __________ on cooling and to
_________ on further cooling.
C. Write true or false for the following sentences.
1. Gases neither have a fixed shape nor fixed volume.
2. Oxygen gas is dissolved at high pressure in soda water.
3. The volume of a solvent increases a lot when a solution is
formed.
4. No new substance is formed as a result of chemical
change.
D. Answer the following questions.
1. Differentiate between solid, liquid and gas on the basis of
space between the molecules.
2. What is a solution?
3. Define chemical change.
4. How do fishes and other water animals breathe?