Grade: 5 Subject : Science Strand: Reversible and Irreversible

Changes
Learning Objective(s):
Learners will:
1. Distinguish between reversible and irreversible changes.
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2. Explore how solids can be mixed and how it is often possible to separate them again 22

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1. Plabo mixed flour and water and

(i) made a dough,
(ii) rolled the dough to make a chapati,
(iii) baked the chapati on a pan,
(iv) dried the chapati and ground it in a grinder to make powder.

Identify the changes (i) to (iv) as reversible or irreversible changes.

2. Salt can be separated from its solution (salt dissolved in water), because
a. mixing of salt in water is a change that can be reversed by heating and melting of salt.
b. mixing of salt in water is a change that cannot be reversed.
c. mixing of salt in water is a permanent change.
d. mixing of salt in water is a change that can be reversed by evaporation.

3. Pick the change that can be reversed from the following

a. Cutting of trees
b. Melting of ghee
c. Burning of candle
d. Blooming of flower

4. Which of the following change cannot be reversed?

a. (a) Hardening of cement

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 b. (b) Freezing of ice cream
c. (c) Opening a door
d. (d) Melting of chocolate

5. Which of the following mixtures would you be able to separate using the method of filtration?

a. (a) Oil in water

b. (b) Cornflakes in milk
c. (c) Salt in water
d. (d) Sugar in milk

6. Match the mixtures in Column I with their method of separation in Column II.

COLUMN I COLUMN II
Salt mixed in water Sieving

Iron powder mixed with flour hand picking

Lady’s finger mixed with French beans magnet

Rice flour mixed with Kidney beans evaporation

Q7. Fill two beakers with 200 ml of water each. Label the beakers as C and D.

Add one piece of sugar cube in beaker C while add a crushed sugar piece (powdered form) in beaker D

at the same time.

a. Which has the large surface area, the crushed sugar or the uncrushed sugar?

b. In which beaker the sugar will dissolve quickly and why?

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 c. Write three variables that should be kept same to make it a fair test.

d. If heat is provided to both the beakers, in which the sugar will dissolve faster and why?

Q8. Write three factors which effect the solubility.

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Q9. Identify the changes in the pictures. Sort them in the table given below. Circle the changes that are
reversible.
Wood Mixing
Steam coming out
burning
of the kettle

Ice cream melting Burning Ice cube

of wick melting

Turning ON the lamp Melting butter

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 Reversible Changes Irreversible Changes

Q10. (a) What happens to sugar when you put it into water?

Q11. (b) Explain why dissolving is a reversible change?

Q11. (c) As the temperature of the water ______________________, the speed at which sugar

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dissolves increase.

Q11. (d) As the temperature of the water ______________________, the speed at which

sugar dissolves decrease.