CBSE Class 9 Science
Important Questions
Chapter 2
Is Matter Aroud Us Pure
MM.28 TIME:1hr
1. Classify each of the following as a homogeneous or heterogeneous mixture.
soda water, wood, air, soil, vinegar, filtered tea.
2. Which of the following materials fall in the category of a “pure substance”?
(a) Ice
(b) Milk
(c) Iron
(d) Hydrochloric acid
(e) Calcium oxide
(f) Mercury
(g) Brick
(h) Wood(i) Air.
3. Identify the solutions among the following mixtures.
a) Soil(b) Sea water
(c) Air
(d) Coal
(e)Soda water.
4. Which of the following will show “Tyndall effect”?
(a) Salt solution
(b)Milk
(c) Copper sulphate solution
(d) Starch solution.
5. What is meant by a substance?
6. How will you separate a mixture containing kerosene and petrol (difference in their
boiling points is more than ), which are miscible with each other?
7. Name the technique to separate
(i) butter from curd,
(ii) salt from sea-water,
(iii) camphor from salt.
8. What is a mixture? What are its various types?
9. Define solute, solvent and solution?
10. Differentiate between elements and compounds.
11. What is tyndall effect? Which kinds of solution show it?
12. Differentiate between homogeneous and heterogeneous mixture?
13. What is a suspension? What are the properties of suspension?
