PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES AND CHANGES

Name: Tabaldo, Raynan A. Key_______________________

PHYSICAL PROPERTY CHEMICAL PROPERTY

1. observed with senses 1. indicates how a substance
2. determined without destroying matter reacts with something else
2. matter will be changed into a new
substance after the reaction

Identify the following as a chemical (C) or physical property (P):

__P___1. blue color ___P__8. melting point
_P____2. density ___C__ 9. reacts with water
___C__3. flammability (burns) __P__10. hardness
___P__4. solubility (dissolves) __P__11. boiling point
___C__5. reacts with acid __P__12. luster
___C__6. supports combustion ___P__13. odor
___P__7. sour taste _C___14. reacts with air

PHYSICAL CHANGE CHEMICAL CHANGE

a change in the physical
1. a change in size, shape, or state 1. and
2. no new substance is formed chemical properties
2. a new substance is formed

Identify the following as physical (P) or chemical (C) changes.

__P__1. NaCl (Table Salt) dissolves in water. ___C__9. Milk sours.

___P_2. Ag (Silver) tarnishes. __P___10. Sugar dissolves in water.
___P_3. An apple is cut. __C___11. Wood rots.
__P__4. Heat changes H2O to steam. __C___12. Pancakes cook.
__C__5. Baking soda reacts to vinger. ___C__13. Grass grows.
__C__6. Fe (Iron) rusts. ___P__14. A tire is inflated.
__P__7. Alcohol evaporates . _C___15. Food is digested.
Paper towel absorbs
___P_8. Ice melts. ___P__16. water.
 Physical and Chemical Changes

Can you recognize the chemical and physical changes that happen all around us? If you change the way
something looks, but haven’t made a new substance, a physical change (P) has occurred. If the
substance has been changes into another substance, a chemical change (C) has occurred.

1. P An ice cube is placed in the sun. Later there is a puddle of water. Later still the puddle is gone.

2. C Two chemical are mixed together and a gas is produce.

3. C A bicycle changes color as it rusts.

4. P A solid is crushed to a powder.

5. C Two substances are mixed and light is produced.

6. C A piece of ice melts and reacts with sodium.

7. P Mixing salt and pepper.

8. P Chocolate syrup is dissolved in milk.

9. P A marshmallow is toasted over a campfire.

10. P A marshmallow is cut in half.
Read each scenario. Decide whether a physical or chemical change has occurred and give evidence for
your decision. The first one has been done for you to use as an example.

Physical or
Scenario
Chemical Evidence…
Change?
Umm! A student removes a loaf of bread There is no chemical change.
1. hot from the oven. The student cuts a slice Physical The bread is sliced and still a bread
off the loaf and spreads butter on it. after being sliced.

Your friend decides to toast a piece of There is a new substance formed

bread, but leaves it in the toaster too long. because the bread is burned.
2. Chemical Carbon is formed.
The bread is black and the kitchen if full of
smoke.
You forgot to dry the bread knife when you Chemical Rust is formed which is a new
3. washed it and reddish brown spots substance.
appeared on it.

4. You blow dry your wet hair. Physical Wet hair is the same as dry hair.
It is still hair.
In baking biscuits and other quick breads, There is a chemical reaction causing
the baking powder reacts to release carbon the release of carbon monoxide.
There is also a new substance
5. Chemical formed
dioxide bubbles. The carbon dioxide Batter to bread.
bubbles cause the dough to rise.
The silver is tarnishing which is
You take out your best silver spoons and Chemical similar
6. notice that they are very dull and have to rusting where it reacted to oxygen
some black spots. causing it to change color.

A straight piece of wire is coiled to form a Physical Still a wire, just changed appearance.
7.
spring.

Food color is dropped into water to give it Physical Tinted water is the same as “just”
8. water
color.

breaking up food, cutting or grinding

Chewing food to break it down into smaller Physical to
particles represents a _________ change, smaller pieces.
9. but the changing of starch into sugars by
enzymes in the digestive system represents Chemical The change of food into another
a ___________change. substance. From starch to sugar

From chemical to heat and light

In a fireworks show, the fireworks explode Chemical energy
10.
giving off heat and light.
True (T) or False (F)

Changing the size and shapes of pieces of wood would be a

1. F chemical change.

2. F In a physical change, the makeup of matter is changed.

3. T Evaporation occurs when liquid water changes into a gas.

4. T Evaporation is a physical change.

5. F Burning wood is a physical change.

Combining hydrogen and oxygen to make water is a

6. F physical change.

Breaking up concrete is a physical

7. T change.

Sand being washed out to sea from the beach is a chemical

8. F change.

9. F When ice cream melts, a chemical change occurs.

10
. T Acid rain damaging a marble statue is a physical change.

Using the Arrhenius definition, classifiy the following examples as acids, bases, or salts:
1. HBr ___ACID_______
2. KCl ____SALT_______
3. Mg(OH)2 __BASE_________
4. H3PO4 _____ACID_______
5. HCl _____ACID_______
6. HClO _____ACID_______
7. KNO2 ____BASE________
8. Al(OH)3 ___BASE_________
9. HFO4 ____ACID________
10. KC2H3O2 ___BASE__________
11. Ba(OH)2 ______BASE_______
12. NaCl _____SALT__