Term 2 Class 7

The City School

Worksheet Number: Science 2.2.b

Topic: The Particle Model of matter

Name: ___________________ Class: ___________

By attempting this worksheet, learners will be able to:

➢ explain diffusion and Brownian motion and how these provide evidence for the existence of the
particles

Q-1a) The pictures below show a diffusion experiment where a tea bag was placed in a glass of hot water
➢ a glass of cold water. A photograph of the experiment was taken every 20 Seconds. Write the time
and
under each photograph starting from 0 seconds – 180 seconds.

1.03-2. identify a (solid, liquid or gas) from the arrangement of particles

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b) Complete this write-up of the experiment by crossing out the incorrect words.
•This experiment was set up to investigate how temperature affects diffusion / evaporation
in liquids / gases.

•The glass on the left / right is the one with the hot water in it. I know this because this is the glass
where diffusion happened faster / slower.

•Diffusion happens faster / slower in hot liquids and gases because when the particles are hot, they have
more / less energy and move round more so the particles spread out faster.

•Diffusion still happens in cold liquids but it happens slower / faster.

Q-2 The diagram and statements describe the Brownian motion. Complete the statements using the
words from the box

Change directions colliding microscope many moving particles push

1. Brownian motion was first seen by looking pollen grains in water with a ____________.
2. The pollen was seen to be _________ jerkily in different directions.
3. This can be explained by the _____________ theory of matter.
4. Water, like all matter, is made up of tiny particles that are moving about in all _______________.
5. The water particles therefore are ______________ with the pollen grains.
6. This will ______________the pollen grain.
7. If _______________ water particles hit one side of a pollen grain then, they push the pollen in that
direction.
8. Since the particles move at random the direction the pollen is pushed in will _________ all the time.