PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL
PROPERTIES AND CHANGES
PHYSICAL PROPERTY
1. observed with senses
2. determined without changing matter
CHEMICAL PROPERTY
1. indicates how a substance
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
P
C
P
C
P
P
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
blue color
density
flammability (burns)
solubility (dissolves)
reacts with acid
brittleness
sour taste
PHYSICAL CHANGE
1. a change in size, shape, or state
2. no new substance is formed
P
C
P
P
P
P
C
8. melting point
9. reacts with water
10. hardness
11. boiling point
12. luster
13. odor
14. reacts with air
CHEMICAL CHANGE
1. a change in the physical and
chemical properties
2. a new substance is formed
Identify the following as physical (P) or chemical (C) changes.
P
C
P
P
C
C
P
P
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
NaCl (Table Salt) dissolves in water.
Ag (Silver) tarnishes.
An apple is cut.
Heat changes H2O to steam.
Baking soda reacts to vinger.
Fe (Iron) rusts.
Alcohol evaporates .
Ice melts.
C 9. Milk sours.
P 10. Sugar dissolves in water.
C 11. Wood rots.
C 12. Pancakes cook.
P 13. Grass grows.
P 14. A tire is inflated.
C 15. Food is digested.
P 16. Paper towel absorbs water. Physical and Chemical Changes
Part A
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 changed 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.
P+
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.
C
A marshmallow is toasted over a campfire.
10.
P
A marshmallow is cut in half.
Part B
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.
Scenario
Physical or
Chemical
Change?
Evidence…
1.
Umm! A student removes a loaf of bread
hot from the oven. The student cuts a
slice off the loaf and spreads butter on it.
Physical
No change in substances.
No unexpected color change, temperature
change or gas given off.
2.
Your friend decides to toast a piece of
bread, but leaves it in the toaster too long.
The bread is black and the kitchen if full of
smoke.
CHEMICAL
New black color and solid, gas is
produced.
(The black is actually pure carbon)
You forgot to dry the bread knife when
you washed it and reddish brown spots
appeared on it.
CHEMICAL
New color and if left long enough you will
see that the new color is also a new solid.
3. PHYSICAL
Water evaoporates only.
4.
You blow dry your wet hair.
5.
In baking biscuits and other quick breads,
the baking powder reacts to release
carbon dioxide bubbles. The carbon
dioxide bubbles cause the dough to rise.
CHEMICAL
You take out your best silver spoons and
notice that they are very dull and have
some black spots.
CHEMICAL
New color and if left long enough you will
see that the new color is also a new solid.
6.
A new gas is produced which makes the
biscuits rise.
7.
A straight piece of wire is coiled to form a
spring.
PHYSICAL
Only a change of shape, no new
substance is made.
8.
Food color is dropped into water to give it
color.
PHYSICAL
Only a change in size from powder to
particles to small to see.
9.
Chewing food to break it down into
smaller particles represents a _________
change, but the changing of starch into
sugars by enzymes in the digestive
system represents a
___________change.
PHYSICAL
First the teeth just make a change in size,
and then the enzymes make a chemical
change producing new molecules. Our
temperature goes up while we digest from
the energy released.
10.
In a fireworks show, the fireworks explode
giving off heat and light.
CHEMICAL
CHEMICAL
Substances giving off heat and light,
themselves, is always chemical. What we
see in the sky are new colors and light.
Part C: True (T) or False (F)
1.
F
Changing the size and shapes of pieces of wood would be a 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.
6.
F
Combining hydrogen and oxygen to make water is a physical change.
7.
T
Breaking up concrete is a physical change.
8.
F
Sand being washed out to sea from the beach is a chemical change.
9.
F
When ice cream melts, a chemical change occurs.
10
.
F
Acid rain damaging a marble statue is a physical change.
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