Physical changes - class-VI

Tests understanding of physical and chemical changes, state transformations, and properties of physical changes for class-VI students.

50 Questions Published

Questions

Question 1 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
State whether true or false :

Cutting a log of wood into pieces is a chemical change.
  1. True
  2. False
Question 2 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Changes in which only ____________ properties of a substance change are called physical changes.

  1. chemical
  2. physical
  3. biological
  4. environmental
Question 3 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Iron rod turns red on heating. The change is a ___________ .

  1. Physical change
  2. Temperature change
  3. Physical and chemical change
  4. Chemical change
Question 4 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Physical changes are ________.

  1. Temporary
  2. Permanent
  3. Irreversible
  4. Endothermic
Question 5 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of them is not the characteristics of a physical change?

  1. Change in the physical properties
  2. New substances are formed
  3. Reversible reaction
  4. Original substance can be riveted back
Question 6 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The process in which the state of a substance changes from solid to liquid is called:

  1. boiling
  2. condensation
  3. freezing
  4. melting
Question 7 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

On decreasing temperature, a liquid turns into solid. This is:

  1. condensation
  2. melting
  3. freezing
  4. sublimation
Question 8 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When a solid directly turns into gaseous state, it is called:

  1. sublimation
  2. condensation
  3. polymerisation
  4. melting
Question 9 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Properties like shape, magnetic properties etc. are changed in:

  1. chemical change
  2. physical change
  3. Both A and B
  4. None of the above
Question 10 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Dissolution of common salt or sugar in water is an example of:

  1. physical change
  2. chemical change
  3. both A and B
  4. none of the above
Question 11 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
Example of the physical change is :
  1. respiration (inhaling oxygen gas and exhaling carbon dioxide gas)
  2. mixing vinegar and baking soda
  3. evaporating water
  4. burning fuel in your car
Question 12 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a physical change?

  1. Magnetisation of iron
  2. Curdling of milk
  3. Burning of a candle
  4. Cooking of food
Question 13 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is not a physical change?

  1. Tearing a paper
  2. Bending an iron rod
  3. Freezing water into ice
  4. Curdling of milk
Question 14 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When a substance has changes in its physical properties than it is known as:

  1. Structural change
  2. Biological change
  3. Physical change
  4. Chemical change
Question 15 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which one of the following is a reversible change?

  1. cutting wood in pieces
  2. blooming of flowers
  3. melting of ice
  4. the burning of a candle
Question 16 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Properties such as shape, size, colour and state of a substance are called it's:

  1. chemical properties
  2. physical properties
  3. chemical changes
  4. none of these
Question 17 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a physical change?

  1. Rusting of Iron.
  2. The burning of coal
  3. Cooking food
  4. Converting ice in the water
Question 18 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The process of obtaining salt by the evaporation of sea water is a :

  1. chemical change
  2. physical change
  3. neutralisation
  4. galvanisation
Question 19 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is a physical change?

  1. Photosynthesis
  2. Melting of steel
  3. Burning of wood
  4. Radioactive decay
Question 20 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following is correctly matched?

  1. Making of ice cube - Physical Change.
  2. Folding of a paper - Chemical, Reversible.
  3. Breaking of a glass - Chemical, Irreversible.
  4. All of these
Question 21 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Cutting of a log of wood is a chemical change.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 22 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Two changes are stated below:
(i.) A piece of magnesium gives of bright flames when burned.
(ii). A piece of iron glows red when heated strongly.
 Which of these is a physical change?

  1. Only i
  2. Only ii
  3. Both i and ii
  4. Neither i nor ii
Question 23 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Dissolving salt in water-is a/an:

  1. endothermic change
  2. exothermic change
  3. both A& B
  4. chemical combination
Question 24 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Adding sodium chloride to water is a:

  1. physical change
  2. chemical change
  3. chemical reaction
  4. none of these
Question 25 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Pooja took a candle in a vessel and heated the vessel. Even though the candle did not burn, it changed its shape and state. What kind of change is this?

  1. Naturalization
  2. Physical change
  3. Chemical change
  4. None of these
Question 26 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In a physical change :

  1. new substances are not formed
  2. reaction is reversible
  3. change is temporary
  4. All of the above
Question 27 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Identify the substance that evaporates at room temperature.

  1. Water
  2. Oil
  3. Kerosene
  4. Ammonium chloride
Question 28 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In early winter mornings, we can see drops of water on the blades of grass. This is because of :

  1. photosynthesis
  2. transpiration
  3. condensation
  4. water cycle
Question 29 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Dissolution of carbon dioxide gas in water is  ________ change.

  1. chemical
  2. physical
  3. both of $A$ and $B$
  4. none of the above
Question 30 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Melting of wax is a _________ change.

  1. physical
  2. chemical
  3. both $A$ and $B$
  4. none of the above
Question 31 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

In ___________ , the properties of molecules remain same even after the change.

  1. physical change
  2. chemical change
  3. biochemical change
  4. photochemical change
Question 32 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

An iron ball at $\displaystyle { 50 }^{ \circ  }C$ is dropped in a beaker of water at $\displaystyle { 50 }^{ \circ  }C$. The heat will 

  1. Not flow from iron ball to water
  2. Not not flow from iron ball to water or from water to iron ball
  3. Not flow from water to iron ball
  4. Increase the temperature of both
Question 33 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A mixture of sand and salt can be separated by:

  1. Sublimation
  2. Sieving
  3. Dissolving salt and sand mixture in water and then filtration
  4. Dissolving salt in water and then distillation
Question 34 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Match the columns


I II
(a) Physical change (i) Curdling of milk
(b) Chemical change (ii) Demagnetisation of magnets
(iii) Digestion of food
(iv) Crystallisation of substance
(v) Rusting of iron
  1. a - i, ii, iii, b - iv, v
  2. a - ii, iv, b - i, iii, iv
  3. a - ii, iv, b - i , iii, v
  4. a - iii, v, b - i, ii, iv
Question 35 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Which of the following  laboratory technique would not bring a physical change in the components of a mixture?

  1. Chromatography
  2. Precipitation
  3. Filtering
  4. Distillation
Question 36 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

$Ice\underset {cooling}{\overset {heating}{\rightleftharpoons}} water \underset {cooling}{\overset {heating}{\rightleftharpoons}} steam$. Identify the type of change

  1. Physical change
  2. Chemical change
  3. Both physical and chemical changes
  4. None
Question 37 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Melting of butter is a physical change.

  1. True
  2. False
Question 38 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Boiling water is a _____ change because _____.

  1. Physical, the gaseous water produced is chemically identical to the liquid water the process began with
  2. Physical, the water was disappeared
  3. Chemical, heat was required for the change
  4. Chemical, the process produced a gas
Question 39 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

According to the CRC's  the melting point of cadmium bromide is $868^{\circ}C$. Which of the following equations best describes what occurs when cadmium is heated to $868^{\circ}C$?

  1. $CdBr(s)\rightarrow CdBr(l)$
  2. $CdBr _{2}(s)\rightarrow CdBr _{2}(l)$
  3. $CdBr _{2}(s)\rightarrow Cd(s) + Br _{2}(g)$
  4. $CdBr _{2}(s)\rightarrow Cd^{2+}(aq) + 2Br^{-}(aq)$
Question 40 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

What kind of changes is undergone when an electric bulb glows?

  1. A physical change
  2. A chemical change
  3. Both a physical and a chemical change
  4. A permanent change
Question 41 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Your lab partner mixed two colorless solutions in the test tube. He sees no observable changes in the resulting mixture and is unable to detect any change in temperature. Based on these observations, what type of reaction has taken place?

  1. A physical reaction
  2. A chemical reaction
  3. An exothermic reaction
  4. An endothermic Reaction
Question 42 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

The melting point of cadmium bromide is $568^{\circ}C$. Which of the following equations best describes what occurs when cadmium bromide is heated to $568^{\circ}C$?

  1. $CdBr(s)\rightarrow CdBr(l)$
  2. $CdBr _{2}(s)\rightarrow CdBr _{2}(l)$
  3. $CdBr _{2}(s)\rightarrow Cd(s) + Br _{2}(g)$
  4. $CdBr _{2}(s) \rightarrow Cd^{2+} (aq) + 2Br^{-}(aq)$
Question 43 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

You mix two colorless solutions and the resulting mixture becomes cloudy. What type of reaction was observed?

  1. A physical reaction
  2. A redox reaction
  3. A precipitation reaction
  4. An acid base reactions.
Question 44 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Your lab partner mixed two colorless solutions in the test tube. He sees no observable changes in the resulting mixture and is unable to detect any change in temperature. Based on these observations, what type of reaction has taken place?

  1. A physical reaction
  2. A chemical reaction
  3. An exothermic reaction
  4. No reaction has taken place
Question 45 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Dissolving sugar in water is an example of:

  1. physical change
  2. chemical change
  3. neutralisation
  4. none of these
Question 46 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

When the hot metallic substance is cooled there is __________ in its volume.

  1. expantion
  2. contraction
  3. first contraction and then expansion
  4. no change in volume
Question 47 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

If the substance is expanded on melting, the melting point ______ when the pressure is increased.

  1. increases
  2. decreases
  3. remains same
  4. none of these
Question 48 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

Water in freezing form may break rocks into pieaces due to their property of:

  1. expansion on freezing
  2. contraction on freezing
  3. condensation
  4. none of these
Question 49 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

You are presented with three bottles $A, B, C$ each containing a different liquid. Bottles are labeled as follows:
Bottle $A$: ionic compound - Boiling point $30^{\circ}C$
Bottle $B$: molecular compound - Boiling point $29.2^{\circ}C$
Bottle $C$: molecular compound - Boiling point $67.1^{\circ}C$
Choose the correct statement.

  1. The compound most likely to be incorrectly identified is bottle $A$
  2. The substance in bottle $B$ has stronger intermolecular attractions
  3. The substance in bottle $C$ is highly volatile
  4. A pure aqueous solution of the compound in a bottle $B$ is a good conductor of electricity among the three
Question 50 Multiple Choice (Single Answer)

A filler is a substance added to make a material less expensive, or for:

  1. Changing its acidity
  2. Changing its physical properties
  3. Reducing its chemical activity
  4. Increasing its anti-rusting power