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MIXTURES AND SOLUTIONS ONLINE TEST



Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.
 

 1. 

What happens to a liquid when it evaporates?
a.
The liquid turns into ice
c.
it becomes a gas and may leave crystals
b.
The liquid hardens
d.
Nothing
 

 2. 

How can you tell when a solution is saturated?
a.
When your teacher says the solution is saturated
c.
When you evaporate the liquid and get crystals
b.
When there IS dissolved material at the bottom
d.
When there is no  undissolved material at the bottom
 

 3. 

If I have an unknown susbstance and want to know if it will form a solution in water what should I do?
a.
Put some in water and evaporate it
c.
Ask someone else
b.
Check the internet
d.
Put some of the substance in water and see if it dissolves
 

 4. 

Which of the following steps is the BEST way to separate a mixture of gravel, powder AND salt?
a.
Put the mixture on a screen and shake it -> add water -> use a paper filter to separate the powder -> evaporate the water leaving the salt
c.
Add water -> use a screen to separate the gravel -> use a paper filter to separate the powder -> evaporate the water leaving behind the salt
b.
Add water -> use a paper filter to separate the powder and gravel -> pick the gravel out of the powder -> evaporate the water leaving the salt
d.
Use a screen to separate the gravel -> pick the salt particles out of the powder particles
 

 5. 

What is the BEST way to separate a mixture of powder and water?
a.
Put the mixture through a paper filter
c.
none of the above
b.
Put the mixture through a metal screen
d.
Evaporate the water
 

 6. 

Mrs Martinez is making lemondade for a party.  She was in a hurry and didn’t use the same amount of sugar in each pitcher.  When Mrs. Carey tasted them this is what she said:

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Use the picture above to answer the next 3 questions:

Which pitcher do you think has the greatest concentration of sugar in it?
a.
Pitcher #1
c.
Pitcher #2
b.
Pitcher #3
d.
They are all the same
 

 7. 

What could Mrs. Martinez do to the contents of Pitcher #1 to make it taste better?
a.
Add more sugar
c.
Do nothing
b.
Add more water
d.
Add some salt
 

 8. 

What could Mrs. Martinez to do the contents of Pitcher #2 to make it taste better?
a.
Do Nothing
c.
Add more water
b.
Add more sugar
d.
Add some salt
 

 9. 

Use the picture below to answer the next six questions

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Mrs. Soy used salt and water to make mixtures 1, 3, and 4 as shown above.  She stirred each one and observed the results.

What evidence does Mrs. Soy have that the salt and water make a solution
a.
Mr. Yerington told her so
c.
The solution is clear and there is nothing on the bottom
b.
She just thinks it makes a solution
d.
She doesn’t have ANY evidence
 

 10. 

Which solution is saturated?
a.
Solution 1
c.
All of the above
b.
Solution 3
d.
Solution 4
 

 11. 

How do you know the solution you selected is saturated?
a.
There is material at the bottom
c.
There is NO material at the bottom
b.
It is a guess
d.
The solution is clear
 

 12. 

Which solution is most concentrated
a.
Solution 3
c.
Solution 1
b.
Solution 4
d.
They are the same
 

 13. 

If one spoon of salt weighs 6 grams how much does the salt AND water weigh in mixture 3
a.
118 grams
c.
200 grams
b.
18 grams
d.
100 grams
 

 14. 

How could Mrs. Soy separate the salt from the water in Mixture #1
a.
She could use a filter paper
c.
It can’t be separated
b.
She could evaporate the water
d.
She could use a filter screen
 

 15. 

If Mrs. Soy make mixture #2 with two spoons of salt and 100 ml of water, what do you think she would observe
a.
A murky solution with nothing at the bottom
c.
A murky solution with material at the bottom
b.
A clear solution with nothing at the bottom
d.
A clear solution with material on the bottom
 

Multiple Response
Identify one or more choices that best complete the statement or answer the question.
 

 16. 

How is salt obtained today? (select ALL correct answers)
 a.
Evaporating sea water
 c.
Combining sodium and chlorine in a lab
 b.
Buying it at the store
 d.
Mining it
 

 17. 

Select each of the ways we used to separate mixtures:
 a.
Picking the solid out by hand
 d.
A filter paper
 b.
Magic
 e.
Evaporation
 c.
A screen
 f.
A centrifuge
 

 18. 

Check ALL the ways that salt is used TODAY:
 a.
to keep livestock healthy
 e.
to bring good luck
 b.
to preserve food
 f.
to soften hard water
 c.
to add flavor to food
 g.
to melt ice on roads
 d.
to make chlorine and sodium
 h.
as payment for work done
 

Numeric Response
 

 19. 

If I have 25 g of water and I add 10.3 g of salt and 5.9 g of sugar and mix them to form a solution, how much will the solution weigh?     

 

Matching
 
 
a.
skeletal remains of diatoms
h.
the amount of material dissolved in a liquid
b.
salt
i.
a special mixture formed when one material dissolves into another
c.
solid form of a material that can be identified by it’s shape or pattern
j.
two or more substances that are combined and can be separated
d.
the liquid part of a solution
k.
solid material that forms as a product of a chemical reaction
e.
when a liquid becomes a gas
l.
substances that are made up of more than one element
f.
a characteristic of an object such as size, color, shape, or texture
m.
the solid material that dissolves into a solvent
g.
the property that substances have of dissolving in a solvent
 

 20. 

diatomaceous earth
 

 21. 

crystals
 

 22. 

evaporate
 

 23. 

NaCl
 

 24. 

compound
 

 25. 

concentration
 

 26. 

mixture
 

 27. 

solvent
 

 28. 

properties
 

 29. 

solution
 

 30. 

solubility
 

 31. 

solute
 

 32. 

precipitate
 



 
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