Reversible and Irreversible Changes
A quiz about reversible and irreversible physical and chemical changes, including thermal expansion, state changes, and chemical reactions.
Questions
All chemical reactions are :
- reversible
- irreversible
- exothermic
- endothermic
Which of the following changes are irreversible?
- Milk to paneer
- Cow dung to biogas
- Grain to its flour
- All of the above
Iron adopts changes slowly and gradually by process of :
- rusting
- moldings
- fermentation
- explosions
Burnt sparklers and burnt books pages are examples of
- reversible change
- irreversible change
- no change
- none of the above
Which of the following is not a reversible change?
- Heating of water to steam
- Cooking of egg to scrambled eggs
- Heating of wax to molten wax
- Cooling a cake
Which of the following change cannot be reversed ?
- Hardening of cement
- Freezing of ice cream
- Opening a door
- Melting of choclate
Burnt sparklers and burnt books pages are examples of:
- reversible process
- irreversible process
- rusting
- none of these
Which of the following changes are irreversible?
- Raw egg to boiled egg
- Woollen yarn to knitted sweater
- Bud to flower
- All of the above
Which of the following represents a reversible change?
- A metal rod on heating expands (its length increases).
- A metal rod on cooling contracts (its length decreases).
- Both of the above
- None of the above
Small gaps are left between the metal rails on railway tracks in order to allow for :
- expansion of the metal rails on cold days
- contraction of the metal rails on hot days
- contraction of the metal rails on cold days
- expansion of the metal rails on hot days
Which of the following is true about dissolving:
- Dissolving is an example of a reversible change.
- Dissolving is an example of a irreversible change.
- It depends on the conditions of dissolution.
- None of the above.
Railway tracks have gaps between them to deal with expansion in :
- hot days
- cold days
- winters
- snow fall
Heating will produce what sort of change?
- An irreversible change
- A reversible change
- Either a reversible or irreversible change
- Neither a reversible or irreversible change
What is a reversible change?
- A material changes permanently into a new material
- A material changes its feel or appearance, but it is still the same material
- A material changes into a new material, but it can be changed back
- A material stops existing
The change of state of water from one form to another is :
- chemical change
- irreversible change
- reversible change
- state variation
Consider the expansion and contraction among solids, liquids and gases, the one which has a greater tendency to expand is :
- solid
- liquid
- gas
- none of these
Brown colour of the apple after cutting is:
- physical change
- biological change
- chemical change
- no change